| Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 páginas
...quite. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. — Wolfe. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged...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 rest, "With his martial... | |
| 1855 - 458 páginas
...quite. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. — Wolfe. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. i We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, — By the struggling... | |
| British history - 1855 - 482 páginas
...not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried; Not a soldier discharg'd his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. We buried him darkly at dead of the night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And our lanterns... | |
| John Frost - 1855 - 462 páginas
...chief." CAMPBELL 73. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. 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... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1855 - 350 páginas
...intensity of the emotion. EXERCISES ON TIME. SLOW. Not a drum was heard, nor 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 sod with our bayonets... | |
| Robert Gordon Latham - 1855 - 542 páginas
...well-known lines on the Burial of Sir John Moore :— 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... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1855 - 440 páginas
...BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. By the Rev. J. WOLFE. 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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 páginas
...heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried, Not a soldier di>charged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. We...buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our baxonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless... | |
| 1817 - 698 páginas
...MOOBE,* Wlaftn at the Batìk ofCortmna, in 1808. NOT a drum was heard, nor 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. * This little poem first appeared in tome of the newspapers... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1992 - 260 páginas
...funeral accompaniments, though it may be,— "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." The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly,... | |
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