 | Richard Cannon - 1848 - 174 páginas
...upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him! But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing I Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; We... | |
 | Charles Dibdin, George Hogarth - 1848 - 468 páginas
...and crashy crown, Tee fays and means I'll let you know, to get tee bus' ness tone. Vid my fa lal, &c. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant random gnu That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sad we laid him down. From the field of his... | |
 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 páginas
...laid him. But half our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring; And we heard hy the distant and random gun. That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carv'd not a line, we rais'd not a stone, But we left... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - 424 páginas
...imperfect copy of the original. In one it is quite plain that the stanza, which closes with the lines — ' And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe, was sullenly firing ; ' and in which the word ' suddenly' is often substituted for ' sullenly,' was printed falsely in... | |
 | 1856 - 666 páginas
...upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 páginas
...him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; WOLFE. STANZAS. If I had thought thon couldst have died,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 páginas
...In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done, When the bell toll'd the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and...sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carv'd not a line — we rais'd not a stone, But we... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 páginas
...But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the...heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sulleuly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 páginas
...upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock...sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory : We carv'd not a line, and we rais'd not a stone — But... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 páginas
...— But little he '11 reck, if they '11 let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suLenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved... | |
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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 ! But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring,... 
