 | 1823 - 450 Seiten
...task was done, When tue clock loll'd the hour of retiring, And we heard the dimaat. and random shot, That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, Prom the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; — Wts caiVd not a line, we rajs'd not a stone, Вал... | |
 | 1825 - 726 Seiten
...has laid him. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for returning ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing. " Slowly and sadly we kid him down, From the field of his feme freth and gory ; We carved hot a line, and We raited not a... | |
 | 1825 - 710 Seiten
...has laid him. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for returning ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly Bring. " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not... | |
 | 1826 - 494 Seiten
...grave where a Briton has laid him. 7. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the 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 carv'd not a... | |
 | 1826 - 520 Seiten
...grave where a Briton has laid him. 7. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the 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 carv'd not a... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 Seiten
...spirit that's gone, 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 suddenly firing— When the clock tolled the hour for retiring, Slowly and sadly we laid him down,... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1827 - 500 Seiten
...grave where a Briton has laid him. VII. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. VIII. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not... | |
 | 1828 - 316 Seiten
...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...firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the 6eld of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carvtd not a line, — and we raised not a stone,— But we left... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 Seiten
...But half of our heavy tasA was done, | When the clocA told the hour for retiring ; | And we knew by the distant, and random gun, | That the foe was sullenly firing. | Slowly, and sadly we laid Aim down | From the field of Ais fame, fresh, and gory : | We carv'd not a line,, — | we rais'd not... | |
 | 1842 - 796 Seiten
...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 sulienly firing.' and in which the word ' suddenly' is often substituted for ' sullenly' was printed... | |
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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. 
