...lantern dimly burning. 3. 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. 4. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed...

...lantern dimly hurning. No useless coffin inclosed his hreast, Not in sheet nor in shroud wo wound hilu; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayors we said. And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead,...

...hitterly thought on the morrow. No useless coffin confined his hreast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we hound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. We thought as we heap'd his narrow hed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...

...thought on the morrow. No useless coffin confined 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 heap'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe or the stranger...

...After he had come to an end, he repeated the third, and said it was perfect, particularly the lines, ' But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, • With his martial cloak around him.' " ' 1 should have taken the whole,' said Shelley, ' for a rough sketch of Campbell's.' ' No,' replied...

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...struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him, But he lay like...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 steadfastly gazed...

...read it, he repeated the third stanza, and pronounced it perfect, and especially the lines: — " ' But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.' " 'I should have taken the whole,' said Shelley, ' for a rough sketch of Campbell's.' "' No,' replied...

...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, Not 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 short...

...aspect, even in the attitude of repose, at once arrested the eye. Tall, athletic, and dignified, " He lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." I saw before me one of the bravest, the most distinguished, the most trusted of the Generals who fought...