 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 430 pages
...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 ; Not a soldier discharged...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.... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 422 pages
...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 ; Not a soldier discharged...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.... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 434 pages
...Edinburgh Annual Register, 1808, p. 458. ' Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged...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.... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...Burial of Sir John Moore.* — C. WOLFE, NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged...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.... | |
 | James Kennedy - 1830 - 502 pages
...it was the finest epitaph ever written*. * Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged...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.... | |
 | James Kennedy - Poets, English - 1830 - 506 pages
...it was the finest epitaph ever written*. * Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged...grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly tit dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, . By the struggling moon-beam's misty light,... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...Studied in arts most vile, in wickedness refin'd !— Burnt. SECTION IV. The Burial of Sir John Moore. 1. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse...farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we buried. 2. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the trembling moon-beams'... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORB.* Rev. John Wolfe NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his...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.... | |
 | James Kennedy - 1833 - 270 pages
...it was the finest epitaph ever written*. * Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged...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.... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 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 sod with...turning, By the trembling moon-beams' misty light, i And our lantern dimly burning. 3. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud... | |
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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. 
