 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 pages
...Byron pronounced " the most perfect in the language," was born in Dublin in 1791, and died in 1823.] 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.... | |
 | Book - 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 the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.... | |
 | 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 corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried... | |
 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 pages
...While a ruin remains of thy towers. No more, &c. SIR JOHN MOORE'S BURIAL. Music— at Williams's. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried; Not a soldier discharg'da farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero was huried. We huried him darkly at dead of... | |
 | Aristophanes - 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 to the rampart we hurried ; " Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, " O'er the grave where our hero... | |
 | 1848 - 460 pages
...and one puhlications of the day, I offer it as it fell mournfully from the poet's own pen. u 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 huried.... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - 424 pages
...speaks ; the French, one of the ingenious Father Prout's versions. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. 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 was buried.... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 320 pages
...mourn : flow forth afresh my tears. Beattie. EXERCISE 29. The Burial of Sir John Moore. \ ( — )Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...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... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Nor a drum was beard, 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 huried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...beauty about them which every sensitive heart at once recognises. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. 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 was buried.... | |
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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. 
