 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 enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud...  The Freemason's Monthly Magazine - Page 2491844Full view - About this book
 | Theology - 1832 - 698 pages
...the present prolific age has brought forth." The third stanza in particular he considered perfect. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet,...taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." Were it our purpose, however, minutely to criticise this production, we should say it was defective,... | |
 | Miss Pardoe (Julia) - Great Britain - 1829 - 300 pages
...of England !" CHAP. XV. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shrond we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him!" Rev. C. WOIFK. A Warrior's Burial. WHEN the lady of Rossenville closed the door of the apartment in... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...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 the lantern,...dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in, sheet, nor in shroud, we bound him ; But he lay, like a warriour taking his rest, With his... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...we hurried ; We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; .. By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern...No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 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... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...buried him darkly ; at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beams' 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 a warrior taking his rest — With his... | |
 | English poetry - 1831 - 272 pages
...of Corunna. lite No useless coffin pnclosed }ijs breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound Him; Bu he lay like a warrior taking his rest. With his martial cloak around him. Few an4 short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow ; But we stedfustly gazed on... | |
 | Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1831 - 318 pages
...were alone left 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 enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound hire ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...buried him darkly; at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beams' 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 a warrior taking his rest — With his... | |
 | 1856 - 520 pages
...the hill-side — the Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman — but in an honourable grave ; each sleeping " like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him," in a soldier's grave, though destitute of " storied urn and animated bust," yet cherished in the country's... | |
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