 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...SIR JOHN MOORE.* NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we burried, Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the...buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our hayonets turning ; By the struggling moon beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless... | |
 | Great Britain - 1826 - 520 pages
...: — » The Newry Telegraph of the 19th of April 1817. " The Burial of Sir John Moore. I. " Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. 2. " We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moon-beam's... | |
 | Great Britain - 1826 - 494 pages
...state : — * The Newry Telegraph of the 19th of April 1817. " The Burial of Sir John Moore. 1. " Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. 2. " We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - Sermons, English - 1827 - 500 pages
...covered with earth." — Edinburgh Annual Register, 1808, p. 458. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. I. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. II. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...Switzerland again was free ; Thus Death made way for Liberty ! THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE.— Wolfe, Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him,... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 430 pages
...waning. C. THE BURIAL, OF SIR JOHN MOORE, WHO FELL AT THE BATTLE OP CORUNNA. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...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,... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 498 pages
...waning. C. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE, WHO FELL AT THE BATTLE OP COHUNNA. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...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,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...thy mystic treasures. LESSON CV. Burial of Sir John Moore.*—ANONYMOUS. NOT a drum-was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried;...By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern, dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, But he lay, like a warriour taking his... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 422 pages
...waning. . THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE, WHO FELL AT THE BATTLE OF CORUNHA. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...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,... | |
 | Europe - 1828 - 316 pages
...commemorate, that no apology is necessary for introducing them here. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note. As his corse to...farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we buried. Meantime, General Hope, on whom the chief command had devolved, was passing the night in the embarkation... | |
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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... 
