 | William Jerdan - Authors, English - 1852 - 352 pages
...a sight never to be forgotten, whilst " memory holds a seat." CHAPTER XVI. WARS AND JUBILEES. 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.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...higher fortune can ambition covet? 49. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE, 1809. —Rec. Charles Wolfe. 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.... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - Anecdotes - 1852 - 346 pages
...which produced a roar of laughter, and closed the subject. CXXVI. THE BURIAL OF SIR J. 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.... | |
 | William Jerdan - Authors, English - 1852 - 350 pages
...sight never to be forgotten, whilst " memory holds a seat." CHAPTEE XVI. WARS A.ND JUBILEES. 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.... | |
 | William Jerdan - Authors, English - 1852 - 326 pages
...sight never to be forgotten, whilst " memory holds a seat." I 2 CHAPTER XVI. WARS AND JUBILEES. 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.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 196 pages
...livery all things clad. — MILToN. From tent to tent the impaticnt warrior flics. — DARwIN. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurricd ; Not a soldicr discharged his farewell shot Whilst light and colours rise and fly, Lives Newton's... | |
 | John Menzies (of Edinburgh.) - 1853 - 136 pages
...troops, exhausted and disordered as they were, triumphed — but their gallant leader fell : — " Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, * As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; * Not a soldier discharg'd his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...21st of" February, 1823, in the thirtysecond year of his age.1 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 farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.... | |
 | Marcius Willson - History - 1854 - 894 pages
...moat beautiful pieces of poetry in the English language, beginning— t " Nol 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 burled." a. Nor. 10th and llth. b. Nov.... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...higher fortune can ambition covet? 49. RURIAL OP SIR JOHN MOORE, 1809. —Rn. Charlet Wolfe. 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.... | |
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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. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling... 
