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" By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. "
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... - Page 327
1825
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The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry

Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 422 pages
...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...word of sorrow, 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...
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An Illustration of the Principles of Elocution ...

William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pages
...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 gaz'd on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd...
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The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry, Volume 1

Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 430 pages
...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 on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we...
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Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications

Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 650 pages
...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 on the face that was dead, And wa bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we...
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The Poetical Melange

1828 - 814 pages
...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 on the face of the dead And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed...
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The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry, Volume 1

Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 426 pages
...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 on the face of the dead. And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we...
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Memorials of the Late War ...

1828 - 316 pages
...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 on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we...
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The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry, Volume 1

Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 498 pages
...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 on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...warriour taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Nor in sheet, nor in shroud, we bound him; And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, Few and short were the prayers we said, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought,...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors

J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...the prayers we said, We spoke not a word of sorrow, But stedfastly gaz'd on the face of the dead, And bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smooth 'il down his lowly pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er bis head, And we,...
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