 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 gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.  The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine - Side 2781817Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 sider
...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...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we... | |
 | sir Charles Gavan Duffy - 1845 - 262 sider
...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...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the fnce that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 sider
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclos'd his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow : But we steadfastly gaz'd on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. 1 He was killed... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 sider
...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...said, And we spoke not a word, of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as... | |
 | Philological Society (Great Britain) - 1854 - 270 sider
...with some passages of Campbell's Lochiel, or with Wolfe's Burial of Sir John Moore, as in the lines, Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the fSce of the dead, And we bitterly thought on the morrow. But such a mode of... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 sider
...moon-beam1s misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly looked on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 sider
...the lantern dimly hurning. No useless coffin enclosed his hreast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we hitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we... | |
 | Hugh Berrington - 1998 - 250 sider
...and who was his predecessor as leader, stands alone. Even the poll tax was buried, at dead of night. 'Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow.'12 Our Rip van Winkle would have wondered whether Conservative fratricide was something borrowed... | |
 | Bernard Cornwell - 2009 - 338 sider
...God," Harper crossed himself, then looked with horror at Sharpe. Lord Cochrane reverted to poetry: "Few and short were the prayers we said. And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead. And we bitterly thought of the morrow." Then His Lordship... | |
 | Kenneth O. Hall, Denis Benn - 2005 - 373 sider
...rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. The Bennett parody... | |
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