 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...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...But 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, And we heard, by the distant... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 426 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 has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk...But 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 the... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 422 pages
...bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, Aud we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of...But 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 tolled the... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 6 " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him." 7 But half of our heavy task was done, . When the clock toll'd... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his And we far away on the billow! [head, " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...But 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 tolled... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 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 our... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 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...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 650 pages
...England, many fell victims to a pestilential typl'"8 fever which we had acquired, partly from coming 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. But half of our... | |
 | Charles Wolfe - Sermons, English - 1828 - 312 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! VI. . 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. VII. But half... | |
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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... 
