 | William Jerdan - Authors, English - 1852 - 352 pages
...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...discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. » * * * Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory :... | |
 | William Jerdan - Authors, English - 1852 - 350 pages
...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...discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. * * * * Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory :... | |
 | William Jerdan - Authors, English - 1852 - 326 pages
...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...discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. * * * * Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory :... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged hia farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The soda with our bayonets turning. By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning.... | |
 | William Shannon - Irish poetry - 1852 - 294 pages
...our blood Uurfal of Str Joint Not a drum was heard, not 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 buried. t We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeams'... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...BUEIAL OP SIE JOHN MOOEE. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse 0) to the ramparts (2) we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell...buried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods (3) with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeams misty light, And the lantern dimly burning.... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - 250 pages
...rest ! thy warfare o'er, 3. Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note. As his corpse to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we huried. Exercise 98. — Section 2. In Poetry, several peculiarities are allowed ; as, 1. Adjectives... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1879 - 372 pages
...that he would rather be the author of It than of any one ever written. 1. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried;...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... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - Political Science - 1991 - 244 pages
...famous lines on the death of John Moore during the battle of Coruiia:7 1. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried;...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 moonbeams'... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 260 pages
...say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, — "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note. As his corse to the rampart we hurried;...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried." The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are... | |
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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. 
