 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 Seiten
...Lightly they'll talk o 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...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. Slowly and sadly... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...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...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. Slowly and sadly... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...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...task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing.1 Slowly and sadly... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 Seiten
...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...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. Slowly and sadly... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 Seiten
...they'll talk of the spi'rit/ that's g'one, And o'er his cold a'shes/ upbraid h'im ; And lit'tle he'll re'ck (if they let him sleep o'n) In the gra've/ where...task was do'ne, When the clo'ck/ struck the hour for reti'ring, And we h'eard (by the distant and random g'un) That the foe/ was suddenly firin'g. Slo'wly... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 Seiten
...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...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. Slowly and sadly... | |
 | 1846 - 436 Seiten
...the spirit that 's gone, . And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he '11 reck, if they '11 let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid...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.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1846 - 332 Seiten
...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 hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 Seiten
...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...task was done When the, clock struck the hour for retiring : And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - 1847 - 178 Seiten
...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...task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly 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. 
