...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,...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...