 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...ramparts we hurried ; Nut a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we bnried. 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 confined his breast, Nor in... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...And the lantern dimly burning. •- » No useless coffin confined his breast, ' ' . } Nor in sheet nor in shrouds we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, , _.'_ With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayer« we raU, And we spoke not... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...ramparts we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our Hero was buried. The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beams' misty light, • -r t ' We buried him darkly; at dead of night, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin... | |
 | 1827 - 854 pages
...hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where out hero we buried. 2 Y2 348 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... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - Sermons, English - 1827 - 500 pages
...we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. II. 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. III. No useless coffin enclosed his breast,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...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...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 martial... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...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...And the lantern dimly burning. — No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, . But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...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...moon-beams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3 No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay—like... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 430 pages
...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 turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 498 pages
...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 turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in... | |
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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. Few and short were the... 
