 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...  Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women - Side 4381885 - 648 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1825 - 600 sider
...And we bitterly thought of the morrow. • We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...the grave' where a Briton has laid him. ' But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | 1825 - 724 sider
...thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stronger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the...the grave, where a Briton has laid him. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for returning ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | 1825 - 710 sider
...his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread u'er his head, And we far away on the billow. "Lightly...the grave, where a Briton has laid him. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for returning ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | 1827 - 854 sider
...dead, And we bitterly though t of the morrow. We thought, as we hallow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 sider
...dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 sider
...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,...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. A But half of our heavy task was clone, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 sider
...the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his harrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 sider
...dead. And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 sider
...narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er bis still, as if with opium drugged, Snore to the murmurs of the Atlantic wave? Is of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 sider
...struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and... | |
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