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 | William Cooke Taylor - 1848 - 532 sider
...funeral. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his course to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell...buried We buried him darkly at dead of night, The turf with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lanterns dimly burning.... | |
 | 1848 - 460 sider
...puhlications of the day, I offer it as it fell mournfully from the poet's own pen. u Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note As his corse to the rampart we hurried;...his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we huried. We huried him darkly — at dead of nicht, The sods with our hayoneta turning; By the struggling... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - 424 sider
...one of the ingenious Father Prout's versions. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 sider
...there, Fastened her down for ever ! ROGERS. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Nor a drum was beard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried;...his farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we huried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling... | |
 | 1856 - 666 sider
...which every sensitive heart at once recognises. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, — By the struggling... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 320 sider
...of Sir John Moore. \ ( — )Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts 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 our bayonets turning, By the struggling... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 sider
...that he would rather be the author of It than of any one ever written. 1. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried;...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 our bayonets turning, By the struggling... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 sider
...at the Battle of Corunnn, in Spain, in 1109. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse to the 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... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 sider
...famous lines on the death of John Moore during the battle of Coruiia:7 1. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried;...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'... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1992 - 260 sider
...say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, — "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note. As his corse to the rampart we hurried;...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried." The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are... | |
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