 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...pall Firmly and decently — and left him there, As if his rest had been a breathing sleep. v. IL .m THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard,...discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was Laried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling... | |
 | William Russell - 1851 - 392 pages
...hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets !" EXERCISES ON PITCH. Lono Notes. " Not a dram was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...buried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning."... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 342 pages
...slippery ground," which produced a roar of laughter, and closed the subject. CXXVI. THE BUEIAL OF SIE J. MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As...light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his bieast, Nor in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 360 pages
...which produced a roar of laughter, and closed the subject. CXXVI. THE BURIAL OF SIR J. MooaE. Nor a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...higher fortune can ambition covet? 49. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE, 1809. —Rec. Charles Wolfe. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...higher fortune can ambition covet? 49. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE, 1809. — Rn. Ckarlet Wolfe. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enelosed his breast, Nor in... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharg'd his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we...light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclos'd his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...fortitude and patience, he expired on the 21st of" February, 1823, in the thirtysecond year of his age.1 THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE.' Not a drum was heard,...struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern cliinly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...might. SHELLEY. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged...light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...stores prepare, And we shall kneel again in thankful prayer, : WOLFE. THE BURIAL OF SIB JOHN MOOU. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
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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 misty light And the lantern dimly burning. 
