 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...gun, | That the foe was sullenly firing. | Slowly, and sadly we laid Aim down | From the field of Ais fame, fresh, and gory : | We carv'd not a line,, — | we rais'd not a stone', | But left Aim alone in Ais glory. | THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH SHOW THE GLORY AMD THE WISDOM OP THEIR CREATOR.... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...for retiring; ' And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carv'd not a line, and we rais'd not a stone, But wo left him alone with his glory !" It is impossible not to think of... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Sailors - 1842 - 366 pages
...hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. ' Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.' " " They are beautifiil... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...for retiring; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the (be was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down — From the field of his fame, fresh and gory. We carved not a line — we raised not a stone— » But left him alone in his glory. ' 350 THOMAS HOOD.... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...for retiring, And we heard by the distant, random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. 6. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ! We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, '*. But left him alone with his glory ! QUESTIONS. — 1.... | |
 | American poetry - 1862 - 512 pages
...for retiring; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down — From the field of his fame, fresh and gory. Tils poet, who has afforded to to many thousands of readers the luxury of Uuighter in lts highest perfection,... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...In the grave where his comrades have laid him. 7. Not the half of our heavy fcisk was done 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his...: We carv'd not a line, we rais'd not a stone, But left him alone — with his glory. — Wolfe. The " Burial of Sir John Moore" requires a low key, slow... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...for retiring, And we knew by the distant random gun, That the foe was then suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory, We carv'd not a line, we raised not a stone, But left him alone — with his glory. THE SAILOR. BOY'S DREAM. IN slumbers of... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - Lawyers - 1843 - 568 pages
...the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, Of the enemy sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; W T e carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory !' " " '... | |
 | Baynard Rush Hall - Bloomington (Ind.) - 1843 - 352 pages
...new things —the tont prefer new things that have a smell and die. CHAPTER XLVI. " Slowly and eadly we laid him down From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory." AT the end of a week's... | |
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Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. 
