 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...unnecessarily restricted by confining the triumph of death to a part only of the once active frame. 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... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...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. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - 312 pages
...morrow. 4. 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. 5. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; . But nothing... | |
 | sir Charles Gavan Duffy - 1845 - 262 pages
...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! Lightly they '11 talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,— But little... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...their last duty. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, The foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk o the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...his life. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bod, And smooth'd down his lonelv 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... | |
 | 1926 - 780 pages
...narrow bed And smoothed 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... | |
 | 1882 - 848 pages
...find, — 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. It would be tedious (though not uninstructive) to give a list of the Gaelicisms which are to be found... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 pages
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his ha 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, Bui nothing he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has luid him. But half... | |
 | 1884 - 208 pages
...bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, 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 — liut little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But... | |
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