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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. "
An excursion to Windsor, in July 1810. Also A sail down the river Medway ... - Page 428
by John Evans - 1817
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School Reader: 4th book

Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...on, In the grave where his comrades have laid him. 6. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like...taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. " * This beautiful ode, as usual, is ascribed to Wojfg, though more rece0 discoveries render it probable...
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The New-England Pocket Songster: A Choice Collection of Popular Songs, New ...

1846 - 166 pages
...of the dead'. And we bitterly thought on the morrow. No useless coffin confined his breast. Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like...taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. We thought, as we heap'd the narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the...
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Practical Elocution

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 pages
...it was Enough to mate it ever after be Remembered !" " No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud, we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest — .With the martial cloak around him. " We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But left him alone in...
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 372 pages
...was Enough to make it ever after be Remembered !" • " No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud, we bound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest — With the martial cloak around him. " We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But left him alone in...
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Dolman's magazine [ed. by M.G. Keon and E. Price]., Volume 4

Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 pages
...And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast. Nor in sheet or shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Undiquc constabant horrenda silentis noctis, Luna laborantes vix agitabat equos; Lamina pnebebant incerto...
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The Fourth Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the ...

Salem Town - 1847 - 420 pages
...moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud, we bound him ; But he lay, like...taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. 4. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed...
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Scenes and Sketches in Continental Europe: Embracing Descriptions of France ...

1847 - 568 pages
...sheet or in shroud we wound him ; Bat he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial eloak around him. " Few and short were the prayers we said, And we epoke not a word of sorrow ; Bat we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly tnoaght...
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Pictorial History of France and Normandy: From the Earliest Period to the ...

William Cooke Taylor - 1848 - 532 pages
...of the dead, And we bitterly thought on the morrow. No useless coffin confined his breast ; Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him — But he lay, like...taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. We thought as we heap'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe or the stranger...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 6

1848 - 460 pages
...lantern dimly hurning. No useless coffin inclosed his hreast, Not in sheet nor in shroud wo wound hilu; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayors we said. And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead,...
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The British minstrel; A choice collection of modern songs. 2 pt. [in 1 vol ...

British minstrel - 1848 - 480 pages
...hitterly thought on the morrow. No useless coffin confined his hreast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we hound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. We thought as we heap'd his narrow hed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...
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