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" 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 on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. "
The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine - Page 278
1817
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The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Xixth Century

Lyre - 1830 - 396 pages
...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...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...the lantern 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...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. We thought, as...
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The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from ...

Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 pages
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay — like a warrior taking his rest...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow — We thought —...
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Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and Others: Held in Cephalonia, a ...

James Kennedy - 1830 - 506 pages
...the Greeks, as if they were the Greeks of No useless coffin enclosed his breast ; Nor in sheet nor shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking...were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow....
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Conversations on religion, with lord Byron and others

James Kennedy - 1830 - 502 pages
...the Greeks, as if they were the Greeks of No useless coffin enclosed his breast ; Nor in sheet nor shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking...were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow....
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Memorials of the Late War ...: Journal of a soldier of the Seventy-first ...

1831 - 318 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound hire ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his...word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hallow'd his narrow bed, And...
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The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from ...

Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay — like a warrior taking his rest...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, ». And we bitterly thought of the morrow — thought —...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 pages
...coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud, we bound him.; But he lay, like a warriour taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him....we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, * And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as...
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The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from ...

Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...around him! But we Steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow— Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; We thought—as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow— That the foe would...
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The Norwich Minstrel, Containing Several Hundred of the Most Admired and ...

1831 - 272 pages
...we bound Him; Bu he lay like a warrior taking his rest. With his martial cloak around him. Few an4 short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow ; But we stedfustly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought on the morrow....
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