 | Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 606 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Nor in sheet nor in 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 not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed... | |
 | 1825 - 600 pages
...dimly burning. • No useless coffin enclos'd his 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. • Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1825 - 620 pages
...VOL. I. CHAPTER IV. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we bound him ; He lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Woolf*. THOUSANDS were spectators of the engagement from the eminences of Boston, and its environs;... | |
 | 1825 - 424 pages
...dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his brefcst, Nor in sheet nor in 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 not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly... | |
 | 1825 - 508 pages
...dimly burning. ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast. Not in sheet or in 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 not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | 1825 - 710 pages
...dimly burning. 327 " No useless coffin enclosed hi* bruit, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound 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 not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...dimly burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shrouds 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 not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly ga/ed... | |
 | 1826 - 494 pages
...had come to an end, he repeated the third, and said it was perfect, particularly the lines — ' But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.' '* ' I should have taken the whole,' said Shelley, ' for a rough sketch of Campbell's.' — ' No,'... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1827 - 500 pages
...come to an end, he repeated the " third, and said it was perfect, particularly " the lines — ' But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, ' With his martial cloak around him.' " ' I should have taken the whole,' said Shelley, ' for a rough sketch of Campbell's.' " ' No,' replied... | |
 | 1827 - 854 pages
...dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his 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. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed... | |
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Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. 
