 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...Moore.*— REV. C. WOLFE. 1. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1838 - 316 pages
...of Sir John Moore. 1 ( — )Not a drum was heard, «not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...any of the " gems" which '* The iLirk, unfluhnmed depths of ocran hear.'* WOLFE. THE BUR1AL OF S1R 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...and have refined the structure of his verse, without impairing if« vigour. WOLFE. THE BURIAL OP SIH 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... | |
 | Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...few hours before the British troops embarked. NOT a drum was heard, nor 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 huried. We huried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...of Sir John Moore. 1 ( — )Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave, where our Hero was buried. 2 We buried htm darkly; at dead of night; The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 374 pages
...BY THE BEV. C. WOLFE. NOT a drum was heard — not a funeral note, While his corse to the 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 our bayonets turning, By the struggling... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 366 pages
...BY THE REV. C. WOLFE. NOT a drum was heard — not a funeral note, While his corse to the 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 our bayonets turning, By the struggling... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...16 1809, by the French.] 1. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts 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 of night, The turf with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1842 - 410 pages
...me, and in the morning " he came over to me with the other verses, by which it was " completed." THE 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 ferewell shot O'er the grave where our... | |
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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... 
