 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...foe and the stranger would tread o'er his 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 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1831 - 318 pages
...England, many fell victims to a pestilential typhus 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought,...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. A But half of... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we, far away o'er the billow. 6. Lightly they'll speak 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 his comrades have laid him. 7. Not the... | |
 | James Carrick Moore - 1833 - 434 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...the/oe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! 6 " 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." 7 But half of our... | |
 | James Carrick Moore - 1834 - 436 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! vr. 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... | |
 | James Carrick Moore - 1834 - 434 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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...the stranger would tread o'er his head'. And we' ... far away o'er the billow'. Lightly they'll speak 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 his comrades* have laid him'. Not... | |
 | 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...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... | |
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Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little hell reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him... 
