 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 pages
...the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, Bat we left him alone with his glory. MARRIAGE CEREMONIES OF VARIOUS NATIONS.... | |
 | Renfrew county - 1821 - 542 pages
...author concludes. With imprc^. LSS wlutanized by th2 importance cf the moment, v:heu ths earth was. 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 in his glory. IV. THOU ART NOT FALSE.... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pages
...we heard by the distant and random gun, That. the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we kid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a' line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory *. • The only intimation we have met... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. 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. THE SOLITARY TOMB.... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - British - 1824 - 372 pages
...for retiring ; " And we heard by the distant and random gun, " That the foe was suddenly firing, " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, " From the field...his fame fresh and gory ; " We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, " But we left him alone with his glory." The feeling with which he recited these... | |
 | Soldier - 1824 - 518 pages
...toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory, We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. X.IGBT DRAGOONS. ON the peace of 1763,... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...told the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him 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 glory. V . *• \ TROM MOORE'S... | |
 | 1825 - 600 pages
...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 field...fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we rais'd not a stone. But we left him alone with his glory !' We have described this poem, as the production... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 606 pages
...the hour for retiring; And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory: We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we lest him alone with his glory. » « On n'entendit pas un tambour , pas... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...told the hour of retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fume fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his... | |
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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, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. 
