| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 páginas
...We buried him darkly ; at dead of night, 3 No useless coffin 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 ! 4 Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly... | |
| Charles Wolfe - 1828 - 312 páginas
...hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. H. \Ve buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with...bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty lijjht, And the lantern dimly burning. nr. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in... | |
| 1828 - 814 páginas
...was hurried : Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero was buried ! We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. — No useless coffin inclosed his breast,... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 páginas
...we 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 our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3 No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 páginas
...hurried; •Garth. 8* Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our Hero was buried, We buried him darkly; at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moon-beams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 650 páginas
...board ; the picqnets also were withdrawn, and embarked before daylight, and the reserve were alone left We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the siruggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast,... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 páginas
...buried him darkly; at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moon-beams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay — like a warrior taking his rest — With his... | |
| Richard Thomson - 1828 - 426 páginas
...continued to pace the Church, when others withdrew to their Taverns and Ordinaries. There he lay, " i like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him," in his hood and shirt of mail, and clothed in his splendid tabard of Gules, with golden crosslets ;... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 páginas
...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...dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in, sheet, nor in shroud, we bound him ; But he lay, like a warriour taking his rest, With his... | |
| 1832 - 698 páginas
...stanza in particular he considered perfect. 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." Were it our purpose, however, minutely to criticise this production, we should say it was defective,... | |
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