 | 1829 - 434 pages
...— Edinburgh Annual Register, 1808, p. 458. ' Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged...And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. ' But half of our heavy... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with...head, • And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they '11 tal-k of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he 'll... | |
 | James Kennedy - 1830 - 506 pages
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought,...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...funeral-note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell-shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried...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. A But half of our heavy task... | |
 | James Kennedy - 1833 - 270 pages
...Juan style. When any one spoke finely, he used to say, " That will do very well for rhyme." Whether That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his...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... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...morrow: — We thought — as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head,...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... | |
 | 1835 - 320 pages
...him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, We thought as we heap'd the narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...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 our... | |
 | 1836 - 884 pages
...we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead. And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, aa we hollowed his narrow bed. And smoothed down his...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 hini. ' But half... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his harrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pages
...dead. And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...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... | |
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But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the 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... 
