 | 1854 - 576 pages
...higher fortune can ambition covet? 49. RURIAL OP SIR JOHN MOORE, 1809. —Rn. Charlet 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... | |
 | William Russell - 1854 - 398 pages
...hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets !" EXERCISES ON PITCH. Low Notes. " Not a drum 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?'... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1855 - 542 pages
...a different distribution of lines, very fair hexameters' may be made out of the well-known lines on the Burial of Sir John Moore : — Not a drum was...Moonbeam's misty light and the lantern dimly burning. Lightly they 'i1 Talk of the spirit that 's gone, and o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, But little he... | |
 | Edward Hayes (collector of ballads) - 1856 - 442 pages
...their souls, at the Judgment, not sever as wide ! THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. BY REV. C. WOLFE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclos'd his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
 | Edward Hayes - 1856 - 396 pages
...their souls, at the Judgment, not sever as wide ! THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. BY REY. C. WOLFE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclos'd his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
 | 1856 - 730 pages
...the affecting account of the Burial of Sir John Moore, in the Edinburgh Annual Register. ! " Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...followivg wards : Heard and Herd. Lay and Lie. Corse, or Corpse, and Corps. Hollowed and Hallowed. 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,1 Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pages
...SIR Joux MOORE, 1809. — Rev. Charles Wolfe. B. m Dublin, 1791 ; d. 1823. 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 moonbeams misty light, And a lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his "breast, Nor in... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow. CAMPBELL. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Nor a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...buried. "We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning ; By the straggling moonbeam's misty light, And our lantern dimly burning.... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1857 - 436 pages
...breeze is upon, When it breaks into dimples and laughs in the sun. 201 ii ii WOLFE. THE BURIAL OF SIB JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note,...light. And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shrond 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. 
