 | Kenneth O. Hall, Denis Benn - 2005 - 373 páginas
...rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. The Bennett parody reads thus: JAMAICAN: Not a... | |
 | Khin Myo Chit (Daw) - 2005 - 136 páginas
...transported over the fence to the people inside, while the mourners and friends remained out-side."Few and short were the prayers we said, and we spoke not a word of sorrow." But these incidents are nothing when compared to the one I have almost withheld, out of sheer delicacy.... | |
 | 2013 - 249 páginas
...with our bayonets turning, By the straggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lanthom dimly burning. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...that was dead. And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we bollow'd his narrow bed And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the... | |
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By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the... 
