 | Old Humphrey - Sailors - 1842 - 366 pages
...his memory, but they will bear repeating, for they are very beautiful. ' Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...grave where our hero we buried. ' We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And... | |
 | American poetry - 1862 - 512 pages
...vault along THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE, WilO PULL AT THE BATTLB or CURUNNA. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1842 - 438 pages
...verse, without impairing its vigour. 23 WOLFE. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. 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. We huried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, — By the struggling moonbeam's... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...MOOKE, WHO PELL AT THE BA1 TLB or CORl'NSA. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse tu the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged...grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 260 pages
...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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...The Burial 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 we huried. We huried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our hayonets turning, By the struggling... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - History - 1996 - 220 pages
...may 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... | |
 | Lenora Ledwon - Droit dans la littérature - 1996 - 524 pages
...funeral accompaniments, though it may be, — Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note. As his corpse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged...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... | |
 | Arnold D. Harvey - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 350 pages
...'The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna': Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged...grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And... | |
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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. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling... 
