 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 páginas
...he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But5 half of onr heavy6 task was done, When the clock struck the hour for...distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. BOADICEA. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved... | |
 | Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 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...struck the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his... | |
 | 1856 - 706 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 struck the hour for retiring ; And we beard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down.... | |
 | Chester Dodd Heywood - 1969 - 348 páginas
...Wolfe on the 'Burial of Sir John Moore.' We buried our fallen heroes 'darkly at the dead of night.' We heard the 'distant and random gun that the foe was sullenly firing,' but our foe's guns were not so random for they were placing shells near by that shook the still air... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 páginas
...him ; But little he'll reck, if they'll 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...distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 páginas
...In tin: grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory, We carved... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 páginas
...the hillow! 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, and we raised not a stone, But we... | |
 | Arnold D. Harvey - 1998 - 350 páginas
...our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning . . . 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, and we raised not a stone, But we... | |
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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,... 
