 | Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 374 pages
...ramparts we 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...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 cloak... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Sailors - 1842 - 366 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 our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 480 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1842 - 440 pages
...hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We huried 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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, — By the struggling moon beam's misty light, And the lantern 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 cloak... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1842 - 410 pages
...; Not a soldier discharged his ferewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried kim darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lanthorn dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not... | |
 | 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 turning,— By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No UHclcss coffin confined his breast, Nor in... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1843 - 1154 pages
...would tread O'er the grave where our hero we buried. o'er his head. And we far away on the billow. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ) But half of our heavy task was done, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light. When the clock struck... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. ading spears of driven and the trampling of moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 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... 
