 | Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 pages
...rampart we hurried, Not a soldier di>charged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our baxonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless... | |
 | 1817 - 560 pages
...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 moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in... | |
 | 1813 - 410 pages
...rampart we hurried; Not a soldier 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 moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in... | |
 | 1818 - 506 pages
...rampart we hurried : Not a toldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero wan fc./' M We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, . By the struggling moonoeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin encUxted his breast i Nor... | |
 | 1817 - 708 pages
...preservation in a fafer repository ; and we have accordingly inserted it among our original pieces. ED. 2 N We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 492 pages
...rampart we hurried, Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O'er the grave, where ourhero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night. The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Kol in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 pages
...rampart we hurried, Not a soldier 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 moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. Nooiseless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor... | |
 | 1825 - 458 pages
...raoipart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot ' O'er the grave where our hero we burial We buried him darkly at dead of night. The sods with our bayonets turning, — By the straggling moonbeam's misty llfht. And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed bis breast.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - 798 pages
...rampart we hurried, Not a soldier dUcharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our tmxonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless... | |
 | Mordecai Manuel Noah - 1819 - 508 pages
...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 moon-beam's misty light. And the lantern dimly burning. / No useless coffins enclosed his breast, Not... | |
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By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. 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... 
