 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...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 rest —...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gaz'd on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. " We thought, as... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1842 - 440 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... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1842 - 410 pages
...the lanthorn 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 gaz'd on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And our lanterns dimly burning. 3. Few and short were the prayers 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. 4. We thought as... | |
 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...light, And the lantern 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...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... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - Lawyers - 1843 - 568 pages
...wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and ghort were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfostly gaz'd on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we... | |
 | Philological Society (Great Britain) - Philology - 1854 - 270 pages
...with some passages of Campbell's Lochiel, or with Wolfe's Burial of Sir John Moore, as in the lines, Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the fSce of the dead, And we bitterly thought on the morrow. But such a mode of... | |
 | James Chapman - Elocution - 378 pages
...light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly looked on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...the lantern dimly hurning. No useless coffin enclosed his hreast, Not in sheet nor 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 hitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we... | |
 | Hugh Berrington - Great Britain - 1998 - 250 pages
...and who was his predecessor as leader, stands alone. Even the poll tax was buried, at dead of night. 'Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow.'12 Our Rip van Winkle would have wondered whether Conservative fratricide was something borrowed... | |
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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. Few and short were the... 
