 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1866 - 174 pages
...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...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 ; Slowly and sadly we laid him... | |
 | Juvenile verse and picture book - 1866 - 130 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868 - 186 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - English language - 1868 - 298 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...pillow, ' That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head. And we far away on the billow ! 20 Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, 25 When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...lonely pillow, 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...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow 1 Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English poetry - 1870 - 466 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 20 Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, 25 When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant... | |
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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. 
