Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the... The School World - Page 1911901Full view - About this book
| Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 422 pages
...steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow,...the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, Aud we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...morrow — 5 We thought — as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 6 " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...5 We thought — as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow — How theybe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 6 " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing... | |
| Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...deaJ , And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we heaped his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone> And o'er his cold ashes... | |
| John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...and short were the prayers we said, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as 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 talk of the spirit that's... | |
| Theology - 1829 - 434 pages
...gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. ' We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow,...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, — But little... | |
| John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as 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 talk of the spirit that's... | |
| James Kennedy - Poets, English - 1830 - 506 pages
...steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow,...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 ; But nothing he'll... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow,...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... | |
| Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'cl down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...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... | |
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