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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... "
Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ... - Page 142
edited by - 1876
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The Port Folio

1817 - 560 pages
...at the battle of Corunna, in Spain, In 1808. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried, Not a soldier discharged...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...
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The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, Volume 1

H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 502 pages
...at the battle of Corunna in Spain, in 1808. Not a dram was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried, Not a soldier discharged...buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with ourbayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless...
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Travels in England, France, Spain, and the Barbary States: In the Years 1813 ...

Mordecai Manuel Noah - 1819 - 508 pages
...retreating army had taken to their ships. "Not a drum was heard, nor a Funeral note, As his corse to ill - rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his...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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The flowers of literature, or, Encyclopædia of anecdote, a coll ..., Volume 2

William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 pages
...Who fell at the Battle of Cornnna, in 1808. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged...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...
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The Edinburgh Monthly Review, Volume 5

1821 - 732 pages
...of the troop." THE BURIAL OP SIR JOHN MOORE. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged...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...
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Beauties of the Scottish poets, or Harp of Renfrewshire, a collection of ...

Renfrew county - 1821 - 542 pages
...June 1S17. Tie affair, tarcvcr, to which it refers, aid the distinguished person whom it so lustly We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with...light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheets nor in shrouds we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his...
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The Poetical Common-place Book: Consisting of an Original Selection of ...

1822 - 418 pages
...SIR JOHN MOORE, Whofett at Corunna in 1808. Nor a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged...sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, But he...
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Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted During a ..., Volume 1

Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 372 pages
...for rinding a place here : " Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, " As his corse to the ramparts we hurried ; " Not a soldier discharged his farewell...with our bayonets turning, — " By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, " And the lantern dimly burning. " Few and short were the prayers we said,...
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The Circulator of useful knowledge, amusement, literature, science and ...

1825 - 424 pages
...which we copy the commencing verses : — " Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged...light. And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his brefcst, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his...
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Journal of the conversations of lord Byron ... in the years 1821 and 1822

Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 578 pages
...apology for finding a place here : Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell...sods with our bayonets turning, — By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Nor in...
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