 | Parodies - 1813 - 410 pages
...clock told 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...of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. THE MARRIAGE OF SIR JOHN SMITH. PHCEBE... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 502 pages
...half of our heavy tjsk was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly...fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not n stone,— But we left him alone with his glory. ART. 11. THESPIAN REGISTER. . Friday Evening, June... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 694 pages
...him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly...the field of his fame fresh and gory: We carved not я line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with hin glory. THE MOSS ROSE. • (Prom the... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...laid him! But half of uur heavy task was done When the clock told the hour for retiring, And we heard by the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly...down, From the field of his FAME fresh and gory, We carv'd not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his OLOKY ! UPNOR CASTLE, on the... | |
 | 1817 - 708 pages
...willingly When the clock tolled the hour for re- would I grant it !" And we heard by thedistantand random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, Frpm the field of his fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left... | |
 | 1817 - 646 pages
...done. When the clock toll'd the hour for retir. i"S. And »e beard by the distant and r..ntlom K«n, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him duwn, From the field of his fame fresh aad gory, We carved not a line, we raised not a slant, But we... | |
 | 1825 - 458 pages
...him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for rerlrtor: And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly...Slowly and sadly we laid him down. From the field of nil fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1818 - 798 pages
...our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring; And we heard by the distant und random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid hin. down, From the Held of his fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, we raised not a stone,... | |
 | Mordecai Manuel Noah - Africa, North - 1819 - 508 pages
...him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly...gory, We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, Put we left him alone with his glory." London paper,' Our captain went on shore with the mail, bat... | |
 | James Mudie - Medals - 1820 - 204 pages
...upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carv'd not a line — we rais'd not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory ! We cannot better... | |
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Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. 
