 By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 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 him.  The Annual Biography and Obituary - Side 811826Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 sider
...lantern dimly burning. 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. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; And we stedfastly gazed... | |
 | William Beattie - 1838 - 306 sider
...Great Britain, III. 19. " 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." The founder of this chapel, according to the authority already quoted, lived in great state at his... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 sider
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enelosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound htm But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed... | |
 | 460 sider
...magnificent room, except the taste with which it is fitted up. The figure of Napoleon, as he is laid, " like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him," is highly imposing, and strikes the beholder with reverence; while turning to the opposite side, we... | |
 | 1841 - 986 sider
...his memory." We give the three finest of the stanzas : — No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like...taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we Btedfastly gazed... | |
 | Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 sider
...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 cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1856 - 520 sider
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 378 sider
...By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him...taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, • And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 sider
...moonbeams' misty light, And lantern dimly borning. 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 ! Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gaz'd... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 sider
...misty light, And the lanthorn dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet or shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed... | |
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