 | 1825 - 508 páginas
...cannot conclude better than with the ode, to which allusion has been so often made. 'THE BURIAL or SIR JOHN MOORE. ' Not a drum was heard, not a funeral...our Hero we buried. ' We buried him darkly at dead o( night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern... | |
 | 1825 - 600 páginas
...may not have seen a correct copy of the stanzas, we must indulge ourselves in transcribing them. • THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. • Not a drum was heard,...farewell shot O'er the grave where our Hero we buried. < \Ve buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moon-beam's... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 páginas
...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 his corse to...light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 430 páginas
...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...light, 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... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 498 páginas
...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...light, 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... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 páginas
...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;...And the lantern, dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, But he lay, like a warriour taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 422 páginas
...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...light, 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... | |
 | 1828 - 316 páginas
...obsequies of the hero whom they commemorate, that no apology is necessary for introducing them here. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Not a drum was heard,...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... | |
 | 1829 - 434 páginas
...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...And the lantern dimly burning. ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 páginas
...with thy blest measures. LESSON CV. Burial of Sir John Moore.* — C. WOLFE, NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...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 warriour taking... | |
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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. 
