| Parodies - 1813 - 410 pages
...sorrow; i But we steadfastly gazed on the face 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 stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 492 pages
...of sorrow, But we steadfastly gaied on the face 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 stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll... | |
| William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 pages
...of sorrow, But we stedfastly gazed on the face 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 stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll... | |
| 1821 - 732 pages
...of sorrow, But we stedfastly gazed on the face 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 stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll... | |
| Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...word of sorrow, But we steadily gazed on the face 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 stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll... | |
| Soldier - 1824 - 518 pages
...of sorrow, But we stedfastly gazed on the face 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 stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll... | |
| 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 down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread u'er his head, And we far away on the billow. "Lightly they'll... | |
| John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face of Ihe dead ; And we hitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, [head, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his And we — far away on the hillow. Lightly... | |
| 1825 - 508 pages
...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, 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... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow — 5 We thought — as we hollowed his narrow bed, And...foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 6 " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes... | |
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