 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pagine
...16 1809, by the French.] 1. NOT a drum was heard, nor 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 we buried. 2. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The turf with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 pagine
...HI ,4 1. OF SIB 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 we buried. DCCIS EX8EQUUB. Buccina mil hi dedit, nee tristem naenia vocem, In vallem tulimus nos ubi membra Ducis... | |
 | 412 pagine
...BURIAL OF SIR JOHX MOOSE. " Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corpse to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried.1* No piece of modern fugitive poetry has created so much controversy, or attracted so much... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pagine
...Eternal sunshine settles on its head. GOLDSMITH. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And our lantern dimly burning.... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pagine
...Eternal sunshine settles on its head. GOLDSMITH. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And our lantern dimly burning.... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - 1847 - 176 pagine
...BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE " Not a drum wag heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampar^we- hurried!. Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot,...buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with sur bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless... | |
 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 pagine
...perfect in the language," was born in Dublin in 1791, and died in 1823.] 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 moon-beam's... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 pagine
...Wolfe's exquisite lyric, — " Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse to the ramparts we hurried, Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we buried." Sir John Moore was a citizen of Glasgow, and his townsmen have erected this statue as expressive of... | |
 | 1847 - 906 pagine
...funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts 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 sod with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning.... | |
 | William Russell - 1848 - 94 pagine
...on the forest or hill, No sound but the lullaby sung by the rill.' EXERCISES ON PITCH. Lam Notes. ' Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note As his corse...buried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning.'... | |
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Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. 
