 | Parodies - 1813 - 410 pages
...with our bayonets turning,— By the struggling moonbeam'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 around him. Few and... | |
 | 1817 - 708 pages
...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 around him. Few and... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 694 pages
...with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-benm'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 around him. Few and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1818 - 798 pages
...with our tmxonets 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 around him. Few and... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...with our bayonets turninjr, 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 around him. Few and... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pages
...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 around him. Few —... | |
 | Dorothea Primrose Campbell - 1821 - 552 pages
...history of that period, and shall in the following chapter proceed with my own story. CHAPCHAPTER XX. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he sunk in the ocean wave to rest, With an ensign wrapped around him. Away ! away... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 pages
...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 around him. Few and... | |
 | English essays - 1825 - 724 pages
...Aui the lantern dimly burning. " No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest— With iii'. martial cloak around htm. " Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 498 pages
...with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam'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 around him. Few and... | |
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Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. 
