By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And 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 his martial cloak around him. Class-book of English Poetry - Page 139by English poetry - 1866Full view - About this book
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...corse to the 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,...dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial... | |
| Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 426 pages
...corse to the 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,...dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial... | |
| John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...corse to the 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,...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... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 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...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 cloak around... | |
| Europe - 1828 - 316 pages
...board ; the picquets also were withdrawn, and embarked before daylight, and the reserve were alone left We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with...dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial... | |
| Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...ramparts we hurried ; 3fota soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where oar hero was buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The...light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin confined bis breast, Xor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
| English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...ramparts was 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 moon-beams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. — No useless coffin inclosed his breast,... | |
| Charles Wolfe - Sermons, English - 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... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...hurried; •Garth. 8* 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 moon-beams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 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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