 | John Hugh Hawley - 1868 - 298 páginas
...sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought on the morrow. II. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed...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... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 páginas
...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...the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random, gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 páginas
...• 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... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1871 - 394 páginas
...moonbeams' 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 j And we heard the distant... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 páginas
...lanterns dimly burning. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud we bound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With...In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done, When the bell tolled the hour for retiring, And we knew by the distant,... | |
 | 1871 - 476 páginas
...lanterns dimly burning. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With...sleep on, In the grave where a Briton, has laid him ! F BOADICEA. 75 But half of our heavy task was done, When the bell tolled the hour for retiring, And... | |
 | Kensington series - 1872 - 296 páginas
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought,...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 Bell - 1872 - 420 páginas
...steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. , CHARLES WOLFE. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed...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... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 136 páginas
...him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought...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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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... 
