 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. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior...  Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School - Page 1441850 - 430 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Sydney Taylor - Lawyers - 1843 - 568 pages
...hurried ; | farewell shot ero we buried. ^original state, by correcting the q; points out. Eti. Wo boned him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets...moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No UHclcss coffin confined his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 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 our bayonets...useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, or in shroud, we hound him; But he lay, like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried rs of driven and the trampling of Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him J But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 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 our bayonets...light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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 our bayonets...enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.2 Few and... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 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 our bayonets...enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around' him. • Few... | |
 | sir Charles Gavan Duffy - Ballads, Irish - 1845 - 262 pages
...Koyal Irish Academy.] Not a soldier discharged his Cnrrivell-shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We huried him darkly at dead of night, The...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, With his martial... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets...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, With his martial... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 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 our bayonets...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, With his martial... | |
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