| Cam river - 1841 - 318 Seiten
...the morrow. 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 ! VEXATA QU^ESTIO. Si Terra e pistis constaret inhospita pomis, Si foret Oceanus vasti lacus atramenti,... | |
| Lyre - 1841 - 366 Seiten
...the morrow. 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. 58 BURIAL OP SIB JOHN MOORE. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for... | |
| Moses Severance - 1841 - 312 Seiten
...sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And bitterly thought of the morrow. That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we, far away o'er the billow. 5. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smootb'd down his lowly pillow,... | |
| 1843 - 662 Seiten
...passed the glacis of the citadel the body of our Commander had just been committed to mother earth. " 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'll let him sleep on, In a grave where Britons have laid him.". I got on board a... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1842 - 440 Seiten
...bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, 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... | |
| George Mogridge - 1842 - 370 Seiten
...morrow. ' 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, But little he... | |
| 1842 - 480 Seiten
...morrow. 1 We thought, as we hollow'd 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 they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 Seiten
...morrow. " We thought, as we hollow'd 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 they'll talk of the spirit that.s gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid hirr^, — But... | |
| Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1842 - 410 Seiten
...the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd 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 ! VL Lightly they '11 talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,— But little... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 Seiten
...stranger would tread o'er his head', And we'... fer away o'er the billow 1 . Lightly they'll speak of the spirit that's gone', And o'er his cold ashes'.. upbraid him 1 ; But little he '11 reck', if they let him sleep on' In the grave where his comrades» have laid... | |
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