 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 wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.  Memorials of the Late War ... - Side 2071828Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 sider
...dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the trembling moon-beams' misty light, And our lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed...breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But like a warrior taking his rest, His martial cloak wrapt around him. Few and short were the prayers... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 sider
...with it, : And made such music, once to hear it was EnougMPto make it ever after be Remembered !" " No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud, we bound him J But he lay like a warrior taking his rest— With the martial cloak around him. We carved not a line,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1843 - 1154 sider
...would tread O'er the grave where our hero we buried. o'er his head. And we far away on the billow. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ) But half of our heavy task was done, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light. When the clock struck... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 sider
...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...useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, or in shroud, we hound him; But he lay, like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 564 sider
...Lay of Last Minstrel, vi. 23, and Note.) And Sir John Moore did not repose less honourably, because ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud they bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.' It is... | |
 | 1849 - 44 sider
...had fallen amid the smoke and din of conflict, was consigned to his grave with all warlike honors. " No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud they wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, "With his martial cloak around him." The... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 sider
...we hurried; Not a soldier 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...moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 sider
...rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O1er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam1s misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 sider
...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 sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sider
...note, 12691 As his corse to the rampart we hurried. 12718 'The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna' Tx" 12719 'The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna' We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone But... | |
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