 | English essays - 1826 - 696 pages
...like a warrior taking his rest, With bis martial cloak around him. Few and short were the рглуон we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on (he f-ice of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the rourrow. We thought as we hollowed his narrow... | |
 | Medicine - 1827 - 554 pages
...shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking In- rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gaz'd on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. Wethoughtaswe hollowM his narrow... | |
 | 1827 - 854 pages
...shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face that Was dead, And we bitterly though t of the morrow. We thought, as... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - Sermons, English - 1827 - 500 pages
...shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. IV. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. V. We thoughtj as... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...we wound him;] But he lay — like a warrior taking his rest—- With his martial cloak around him! Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow — We thought — as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow — How the foe... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 422 pages
...shroud we bound him, . .', But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...of the 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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the deaJ , And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we heaped his narrow bed, And smooth'd... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And... | |
 | Charles Wolfe - Sermons, English - 1828 - 312 pages
...shroud we wound him : But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. IV. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. V. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed,... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gaz'd on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd... | |
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By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the... 
