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. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2741817Full view - About this book
| 1827 - 854 pages
...hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where out hero we buried. 2 Y2 348 We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with...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 - 1827 - 500 pages
...we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. II. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with...moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. III. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like... | |
| 1827 - 554 pages
...the struggling- moonbeam's misty light, And *li.- lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosM his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking In- rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral-note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with...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... | |
| William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pages
...rampart 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...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... | |
| John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...rampart 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...dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, But he lay, like a warriour taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Nor in sheet, nor in... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...buried him darkly; at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moon-beams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless...enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay — like a warrior taking his rest — With his martial, cloak around him! Few... | |
| J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...de.id of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the trembling moon-beams' misty light. And our lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed...breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But like a warrior taking his rest, His martial cloak wrapt around him. Pew and short were the prayers... | |
| Charles Wolfe - 1828 - 312 pages
...hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. H. \Ve buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with...bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty lijjht, And the lantern dimly burning. nr. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 pages
...we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our Hero was buried. 2 We buried him darkly ; at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3 No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor... | |
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