 | Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office, Richard Cannon - 1847 - 180 pages
...NINTH regiment furnished the fatigue party in the interment of their revered Commander : — Not a drum was heard, — not a funeral note, — As 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 moonbeam's... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. GOLDSMITH. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1847 - 178 pages
...Rev. Charles Wolfe, a graduate of the University of Dublin. THE BfJRIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. " Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...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 moonbeam's... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. GOLDSMITH. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...Wolfe's exquisite lyric, — " Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse to the ramparts we hurried, Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we buried." Sir John Moore was a citizen of Glasgow, and his townsmen have erected this statue as expressive of... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1847 - 176 pages
...BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE " Not a drum wag heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampar^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 sur bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's... | |
 | Aristophanes - Greek drama (Comedy) - 1848 - 522 pages
...except that the place of the spondee of quantity is usually supplied by the iambus of accent. " Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, " As his corse...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... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 260 pages
...already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, — "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note. As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried." The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...The Burial of Sir John Moore Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we huried. We huried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our hayonets turning, By the struggling... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - History - 1996 - 220 pages
...and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. The mass of men serve the State thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are... | |
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Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his 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, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling... 
