 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 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...down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carv'd not a line, and we rais'd not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory. EEV. C. WOLFE.... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 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...sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But left him alone with his glory. Song. If I had... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - Anecdotes - 1852 - 346 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...sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, IVom the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Jiriton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the...a stone — But we left him alone with his glory.' SONG. TO MARY." If I had thought thou couldst have died, I might not weep for thee ; Bnt I forgot,... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...little he 'ii 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 ! 10. THE RATTLE OF HOHENUNDEN, 1800.... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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...him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; STANZAS. If I had thought thou couldst have died, I might not weep for thee ; But I forgot when by... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 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. — Southey. SWEET to the morning traveller The song amid the... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 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...not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory ! WOLIE. 74. BATTLE HYMN. Now glory to the Lord of Hosts, from whom all glories are ! And glory to... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...But half of onr heavy task was done. When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly...raised not a stone — But we left him alone with bis glory I JAMES GRAHAME. JAMES GRAHAME, the author of the " Sabbath," was born in Glasgow, in 1765.... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 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. — Southey. SWEET to the morning traveller The song amid the... | |
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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... 
