 | Archibald Alison - 1843 - 1154 sider
...VOL. VI. We thought, as we hollow'd 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. But half of our heavy task was done, 'When the clock struck the hour for retiring i And we heard the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 sider
...LITERATURE. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down hie lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we...sleep on 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 772 sider
...hollowed hia narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the étranger would trend o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock »truck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the... | |
 | 1844 - 402 sider
...morrow. We thought as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head. And we...o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on In the ground where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 sider
...we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him : But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 sider
...narrow bed, Anil smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his ha And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk...that's gone. And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, Bui nothing he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has luid him. But half... | |
 | 1884 - 208 sider
...tread o'er his head, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk...spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — liut little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 898 sider
...morrow. 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. As a matter of fact, Soult showed signal honour to the grave where Moore lies, and the monument he... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1985 - 1106 sider
...are revealed by tearing away the skin, showed he had been scalped, though still living. Chapter XXI "Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him." Charles... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1996 - 580 sider
...are revealed by tearing away the skin, showed he had been scalped, though still living. Chapter XXI. "Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him." T, Charles... | |
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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; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.... 
