| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 560 pages
...shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, • And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 502 pages
...shroud we bound h;m. But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the... | |
| Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1818 - 798 pages
...shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest. With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, Ami smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1818 - 1264 pages
...shroud we bound him ; But he lay 'like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. t We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smooth1 d down his lonely pillow, That the foe and... | |
| 1825 - 508 pages
...shroud we wound hi m Km he lay like a Warrior taking his rest — With his martial cloak around him. ' Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. ' We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed,... | |
| 1825 - 424 pages
...shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few — and short were the prayers we said, And we...word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought on the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And... | |
| English essays - 1825 - 724 pages
...we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest— With iii'. martial cloak around htm. " Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. " We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed,... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1825 - 710 pages
...sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that wtu dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. " We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread u'er his head, And we far away on the billow. "Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And... | |
| Great Britain - 1826 - 520 pages
...breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest — With his martial cloak around him. 4. " Few and short were...we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gaz'd on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. 5. " We thought, as we hollow'd... | |
| Great Britain - 1826 - 494 pages
...breast, 'Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest — With his martial cloak around him. 4. " Few and short were...we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gaz'd on the face that was dead, And we hitterly thought of the morrow. 5. " We thought, as we hollow'd... | |
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