 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...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 was done, When the clock struck the...carved not a line, and we raised not a stone,— But left him alone with his glory. CHARLES WOLFE. OH, MY LOVE HAS AN EYE OF THE SOFTEST BLUE. Oa, my love... | |
 | Ballads, American - 1846 - 166 pages
...on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and...down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory, We carv'd not a line, we rais'd not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. THE GATHERING OF THE... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. THE TRAVELLER.S RETURN. — Southcy. SWEET to the morning traveller The song amid the... | |
 | Europe - 1847 - 568 pages
...him. " But half of oar heavy task was done. When the clock struck the hoar for retiring; And we henrd the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly...raised not a stone — But we left him alone with bis glory !" The village of VILLA VELLID, in Old Castile, represented in the engraving, is situated... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1847 - 176 pages
...the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...not a stone— But we left him alone with his glory! During the retreat to Corunna, his country sustained a severe loss in the death of Major General Anstruther.... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...clock struck the hour for retiring : And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS LIBRARY. MY days among the Dead are past ; Around me I behold. Where'er... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...clock struck the hour for retiring : And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. WOLFE. WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS LIBRARY. MY days among the Dead are past ; Around me I behold.... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 424 pages
...little he '11 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 struck the...not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory ! "DAS BEGRARNISS DES SIR JOHN MOOKE" — Nach Woolfe. Klein Glockenton, klein Trommelschall Erklang,... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1848 - 460 pages
...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 was done, When the clock struck the...Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of hie fame fresli and gory : We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone. But we left him alone with... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...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 was done, When the clock struck the...of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. I unhesitatingly say, my young friends,... | |
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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 heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring... 
