 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...Eternal sunshine settles on its head. GOLDSMITH. 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office, Richard Cannon - 1847 - 180 pages
...furnished the fatigue party in the interment of their revered Commander : — 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... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...Eternal sunshine settles on its head. GOLDSMITH. 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1879 - 372 pages
...that he would rather be the author of It than of any one ever written. 1. 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 was buried. 2. We buried him darkly, at... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - Political Science - 1991 - 244 pages
...famous lines on the death of John Moore during the battle of Coruiia:7 1. 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. 2. We buried him darkly at dead... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 260 pages
...say, buried under arms with 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... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - History - 1996 - 220 pages
...may say, buried under arms with 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... | |
 | Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda - History - 1995 - 848 pages
...the poem nonetheless befits the legend it has long since surpassed in fame: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note. As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a solider discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. Further Reading: Moore... | |
 | Barbara Williams - Australian poetry - 1998 - 328 pages
...burden. It was Charles Wolfe's "The burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna": "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 was buried." So literature and its uses... | |
 | Catherine L. Albanese - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2001 - 550 pages
...say, buried under arms with 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... | |
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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. 
