 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.  Memorials of the Late War ... - Page 2071828Full view - About this book
 | Lyre - 1841 - 366 pages
...ramparts we hurried Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried ! We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him deep at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lanthorn dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet or shroud we wound him,... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1842 - 366 pages
...we hurried ! Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. ' We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1842 - 440 pages
...hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We huried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets...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... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1842 - 410 pages
...; Not a soldier discharged his ferewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried kim darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets...By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lanthorn dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...farewell-shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. " We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sous with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's...And the lantern dimly burning. "No useless coffin enclos'd his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud \ve wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 pages
...ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our .hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, — By the struggling moon beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 pages
...turning', By the trembling moon-beam's misty light", And our lantern dimly burning'. No useless coffinf enclosed his breast', Nor in sheet', nor in shroud', we bound him'; But he lny' . • . like a warriour taking his rest', With his martial cloak around him'. Few and short were... | |
 | 1842 - 788 pages
...Lay of Last Minstrel, vi. 23, and Note.) And Sir John Moore did not repose less honourably, because ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud they bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.' It is... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 pages
...hurried ; | farewell shot ero we buried. ^original state, by correcting the q; points out. Eti. Wo boned him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets...moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No UHclcss coffin confined his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior... | |
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