 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1844
...rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. ul ag 2. moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1844
...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 moon-beam's misty light, And th« lantera dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not... | |
 | English poetry - 1844
...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 moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1844
...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 lite struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1879 - 352 pages
...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 struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Not... | |
 | James Chapman - Elocution - 1976
...rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O1er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam1s misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - Political Science - 1991 - 224 pages
...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 sods with...moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 669 pages
...note, 12691 As his corse to the rampart we hurried. 12718 'The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna' Tx" 12719 'The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna' We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone But... | |
 | Eddie McCartney - Travel - 1999 - 96 pages
...rampart we hurried, Not a soldier discharges 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 moonbeam 's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. ' 5a11yc1og V-SJTS . ^ Stewartstown, about... | |
 | Patrick Moore - Science - 2000 - 208 pages
...buried on 1 6 January, and here too there is a famous poem, this time by Charles Wolfe. It begins: "We buried him darkly at dead of night, the sods with our bayonets turning..." and the poem alludes to the pale light of the Moon. In fact the Moon was new on that particular night,... | |
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By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the... 
