 | Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 578 pages
...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...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing.... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 606 pages
...Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that s gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on. In the grave where...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring; And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing.... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...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 laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour of retiring ; And we heard... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll rst and last of fields! king-making Victory ? find ST. 19—27. PILGRIMAGE. CAKTO told the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, In the grave where a Briton has laid him." ' But half of our heavy task was done, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing— When the clock tolled... | |
 | Great Britain - 1826 - 494 pages
...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. 7. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard... | |
 | Great Britain - 1826 - 520 pages
...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. 7. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - Sermons, English - 1827 - 500 pages
...tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! VI. Lightly they '11 talk of the spirit that 's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. VII. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard... | |
 | Medicine - 1827 - 554 pages
...Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our duty was yet done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 426 pages
...Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly... | |
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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;... 
