 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pages
...Thus Switzerland again was free ; Thus Death made way for Liberty ! THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE.— Wolfe, Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As...sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 498 pages
...waning. C. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE, WHO FELL AT THE BATTLE OP COHUNNA. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 422 pages
...waning. . THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE, WHO FELL AT THE BATTLE OF CORUNHA. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...thy mystic treasures. LESSON CV. Burial of Sir John Moore.*—ANONYMOUS. NOT a drum-was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried;...sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern, dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, But... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 430 pages
...waning. C. THE BURIAL, OF SIR JOHN MOORE, WHO FELL AT THE BATTLE OP CORUNNA. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in... | |
 | 1828 - 316 pages
...commemorate, that no apology is necessary for introducing them here. THE 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. Meantime, General Hope, on whom the chief command had devolved, was passing the night in the embarkation... | |
 | 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...And the lantern dimly burning. — No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, . But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 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...moon-beams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3 No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay—like... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...himself endures. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORU. NOT a drum was heard nor a funeral note, As his corse o'er the rampart we hurried, Not a soldier discharged his...where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at de.id of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the trembling moon-beams' misty light. And our... | |
 | 1829 - 434 pages
...chaplain ; and the corpse was covered with earth." ' — Edinburgh Annual Register, 1808, p. 458. ' Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not... | |
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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... 
