 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...and the stranger would tread o'er bis head, And we, far away o'er the billow. Lightly they'll speak of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where his comrades have laid him. Not the half... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll...But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 434 pages
...his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! ' Lightly...gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. ' But half of... | |
 | James Kennedy - Poets, English - 1830 - 506 pages
...his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll...; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 420 pages
...thefpe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we -far away on the billaw !;.''• • » * * 6 "Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, ....upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleop on • In the grave where a Briton has laid him." 7 But half of our- heavy task was done, When... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! ' Lightly they '11 talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.' But half of our heavy... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, • And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they '11 tal-k of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he 'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...his narrow bed, And smooth'cl down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head , And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirh that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep... | |
 | Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1831 - 318 pages
...England, many fell victims to a pestilential typhus fever which we had acquired, partly from coming Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll...But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task, was done, When the clock tolled... | |
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We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him... 
