 By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.  The Poets of the Nineteenth Century - Page 204edited by - 1857 - 397 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him deep at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lanthorn dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet or shroud we wound him,... | |
 | 1842 - 480 pages
...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...enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1842 - 366 pages
...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...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, With his martial... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 564 pages
...Lay of Last Minstrel, vi. 23, and Note.) And Sir John Moore did not repose less honourably, because ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud they bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.' It is... | |
 | 1849 - 44 pages
...had fallen amid the smoke and din of conflict, was consigned to his grave with all warlike honors. " No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud they wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, "With his martial cloak around him." The... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 pages
...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 with...moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 pages
...we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O1er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam1s misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 pages
...hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. 2. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...note, 12691 As his corse to the rampart we hurried. 12718 'The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna' We 12719 'The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna' We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone But... | |
 | Eddie McCartney - 1999 - 104 pages
...we hurried, Not a soldier discharges 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 moonbeam 's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. ' 5a11yc1og V-SJTS . ^ Stewartstown, about... | |
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