 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...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 nothing he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.' But half of our heavy... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...his narrow bed, And smooth'cl 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 spirh that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, • And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they '11 tal-k 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... | |
 | Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1831 - 318 pages
...England, many fell victims to a pestilential typhus fever which we had acquired, partly from coming 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...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...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. A But half of... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! tly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his...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... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we, far away o'er the billow. 6. Lightly they'll speak 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 his comrades have laid him. 7. Not the... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow .' Lightly...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 toll'd... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...we hollow'd his narrow bed,' And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll...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 toll'd the... | |
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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... 
