 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing 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 tolled the hour for retiring, And we heard, by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing 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, And we heard, by the distant random gun, ThaMhe foe was suddenly firing— When the clock tolled the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...his cold ashes upbraid him- ; But nothing 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 tolled the hour for retiring f And we heard, by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing.... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...the grave where a Briton has laid him. A But half of our heavy task was clone, When the clock struck the 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... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...his cold ashes upbraid him,— But nothing 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, And we heard by the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. When the clock toll'd... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...him; But nothing he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him." 7 But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, the foe was suddenly firing— 8 (jj ) Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task...the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down,... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...o'er his cold ashes upbraid him : But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task...clock toll'd the hour for retiring : And we heard by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From... | |
 | B. Ducos - Great Britain - 1834 - 444 pages
...his eold ashes upbraid him , — But little he'll reek , 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 eloek struek tbe hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly... | |
 | B. Ducos - Great Britain - 1834 - 446 pages
...npbraid him , — But little he'll reek , if they Iei him sleep on In the grave where a Briton bas laid him. But half of our heavy task was done , When the eloek struek the hour for retirinp ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly... | |
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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. 
