 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 564 pages
...honourably, because ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud they bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.' It is assumed, of course, that no frightful accumulations of interment would be crowded into a narrow... | |
 | Parodies - 1813 - 410 pages
...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 sheet, nor in shroud, we bound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 502 pages
...buried him darkly at dead of night, The soda with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam'i misty light. And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest. With his martial cloak around... | |
 | 1817 - 708 pages
...ins ' We buried 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1818 - 1264 pages
...breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, ¿Vith his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the...a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed,... | |
 | James Mudie - Medals - 1820 - 204 pages
...lanthorns dimly burning. No useless coffin inclos'd 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 ! We thought, as we hollow'd, his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-bearu'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 takhig his rest, With his martial... | |
 | Renfrew county - 1821 - 542 pages
...lanteru dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheets nor in shrouds we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Pew and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we stedfastly gaz'd... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - England - 1824 - 508 pages
...misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow : But we stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - England - 1824 - 496 pages
...•.!-,-,;, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior...prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow;'-, i••••<. .\ .•-,• • But we stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly... | |
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bayonets turning; By the straggling moonbeam's misty light, And 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 his martial cloak around him. Few... 
