 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. ent whether grief or joy. freeh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sailly ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with bis glory! The passage... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing.1 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 t Wolfe.... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - 1968 - 568 pages
...John Moore," by Irish clergyman and poet Charles Wolfe (1791-1823). The final stanza of the ode says, "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 in his glonr" (see Hoagland,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 pages
...the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. 8. 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! DEFINITIONS.... | |
 | Zack R. Bowen - 1974 - 394 pages
...which relates the last hurried rites accorded the British leader by his vanquished and retreating army: 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! When the origin... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 pages
...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. Anon. 20. The Lady1s... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow . . . 8. 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! The lines celebrate... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 pages
...struck 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 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. HENRY CLAY WORK... | |
 | John Beatty - 1998 - 404 pages
...we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. * * * * Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a Vine, we raised not a stone, But left him aloue with his glory." 13. We are in a field... | |
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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. 
