 | Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 348 páginas
...struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin inclosed 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 tolled the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and... | |
 | William Brisbane Dick - 1881 - 220 páginas
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed 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 clock struck the hour for retiring; And we knew by the distant... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 páginas
...prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was (lead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought...task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retirmg; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly... | |
 | David Munro - 1881 - 160 páginas
...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, And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 páginas
...dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd fray'd away. His mother found it, when she rose, sadhearted,...a human sorrow in its coo ; To my dear child and i of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and... | |
 | Frederick LANGBRIDGE - 1911 - 510 páginas
...martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; 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 Butler Yeats - 1911 - 354 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1912 - 624 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | 1912 - 572 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 weary task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and... | |
 | Henry Meade Bland - 1912 - 122 páginas
...prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollowed...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... 
