 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...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. Lightly they'll...But nothing he'll reck if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton hath laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - British - 1824 - 314 pages
...his lonely pillow, *' That the foe and the stranger would treafi a'ej KiJ Ufiotl " Lightly they '11 talk of the spirit that's gone, '•' And o'er his...nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on " In the grave where a Briton has laid him. " But half of our heavy task was done, *' When the clock told... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - England - 1824 - 496 pages
...stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! • ... » . . Lightly they '11 talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy... | |
 | 1825 - 600 pages
...his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head. And we far away on the billow ! • Lightly...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. ' But half of... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1825 - 710 pages
...his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread u'er his head, And we far away on the billow. "Lightly...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. " But half of... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...pillow, [head, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his And we — far away on the hillow. 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 laid him. But half of our... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 606 pages
...his narrow bed, And smooth 'd down his lonely pilaw , that the foe 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 nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1825 - 726 pages
...smoothed down hit lonely pillow, I hat the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we fer away on the billow. "Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er hit cold ashes upbraid him— But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave, where a... | |
 | 1825 - 508 pages
...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 ! ' Lightly they'll talk of I he spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, But little he'll reck, if they let him... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...narrow bed. And ciiiniitli'il down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er s the ground was before, thus let it be ;— How that...by thee, Thou first and last of fields! king-maki the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the... | |
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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 ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him... 
