 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...cold a'shes/ upbraid h'im ; And lit'tle he'll re'ck (if they let him sleep o'n) In the gra've/ where a B'riton has laid hi'm ! But half of our heavy task was do'ne, When the clo'ck/ struck the hour for reti'ring, And we h'eard (by the distant and random g'un) That the foe/ was suddenly... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing.1... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...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 ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
 | sir Charles Gavan Duffy - Ballads, Irish - 1845 - 264 pages
...his cold ashes upbraid him,— But little he '11 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 ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...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 ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...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 ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...render it probable that its authorwas an obscure country school master, named Mackintosh. 7. Not the half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard by the distant, random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down,... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1846 - 436 pages
...his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he '11 reck, if they '11 let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing.... | |
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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. 
