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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. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 274
1817
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 2

1840 - 378 pages
...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sodfc with our bayonets turning — By the struggling moonbeam's...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...
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...we buried. | * Ireland my darling! — Ireland for ever! We buried Aim darkly at dead of night', I The sods with our bayonets turning, | By the struggling...And the lantern dimly burning. | No useless coffin enclos'd his breast, | Nor in sheet, nor in shroud, we bound' Aim ; | But Ae lay like a warrior taking...
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The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Nineteenth Century

Lyre - 1841 - 374 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...
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The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Nineteenth Century

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...
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Arundines Cami; sive, Musarum Cantabrigiensium lusus canori, collegit atque ...

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,...
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Soldiers and Sailors: Or, Anecdotes, Details, and Recollections of Naval and ...

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...
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Gems of the Modern Poets: With Biographical Notices

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...
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Remains of the Late Rev. Charles Wolfe ... with a Brief Memoir of His Life

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...
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Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volume 7

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...
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Poetry for Schools: Designed for Reading and Recitation : the Whole Selected ...

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...
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