 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - 312 pages
...in the following couplet, would be a wide departure from the principles of good taste: » Not a dram was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried. Remark 2. — It, however, sometimes happens that these small particles become important in sense,... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 pages
...stain with grief The death-song of an Indian chief." CAMPBELL. 73. THE BURIAL OF 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 our bayonets turning, By... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...vnraistiblc might of weakness, shaking the powers of darkness." THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE.1 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.... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 pages
...beautiful in German, than it is in the masculine English. THE 11l • HI ,4 1. OF SIB 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. DCCIS EX8EQUUB. Buccina mil hi dedit, nee tristem naenia vocem, In vallem tulimus nos ubi membra Ducis... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...killed in a battle at Corunna in Spain, Jan. 16 1809, by the French.] 1. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried...farewell shot O'er the grave, where our hero we buried. 2. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The turf with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's... | |
 | 412 pages
...THE VERSES ON THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHX MOOSE. " Not a drum was heard, nor 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 was buried.1* No piece of modern fugitive poetry has created so much controversy, or attracted so much... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...OF SIR JOHN MOORE. — Wolfe. NOT a drum was heard, nor 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 was buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, — By the struggling... | |
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1846 - 144 pages
...I bring my captive train ; I pledge my faith, my liege, my lord; oh! break my father's chain. 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.... | |
 | 1847 - 906 pages
...should cease, And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace ! BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard , not a funeral note, As his corse...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 sod with our bayonets... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 pages
...the subject of 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...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... | |
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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. 
