 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...  The Edinburgh Monthly Review - Page 4151821Full view - About this book
 | Europe - 1828 - 316 pages
...board ; the picquets also were withdrawn, and embarked before daylight, and the reserve were alone left We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with...word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hallow'd his narrow bed, And... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 650 pages
...left We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the siruggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning....word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And wa bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hallow'd his narrow bed, And... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin confined bis breast, Xor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the deaJ , And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay — like a warrior taking his rest...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow — We thought —... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gaz'd on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...him ; But he lay — like a warrior 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 on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow — 5 We thought —... | |
 | Charles Wolfe - Sermons, English - 1828 - 312 pages
...shroud we wound him : But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. IV. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. V. We thought,... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 434 pages
...lantern dimly burning. ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. ' We thought, as... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. * Who fell in the battle of Corunna, hi Spain, 1808. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we... | |
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