 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...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...And the lantern, dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, But he lay, like a warriour taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 430 pages
...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...light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 310 pages
...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...light, And 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 812 pages
...buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. — No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, . But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...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...And the lantern, dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in, sheet, nor in shroud, we bound him ; But he lay, like a warriour taking... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 434 pages
...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...And 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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 518 pages
...funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; .. By the struggling moonbeam's...light, And 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... | |
 | James Kennedy - Poets, English - 1830 - 506 pages
...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly tit dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, . By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No " You must have been highly gratified by the classical remains, and the classical recollections of... | |
 | Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1831 - 318 pages
...embarked before daylight, and the reserve were alone left We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods .with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's...light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound hire ; But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...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...And the lantern, dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud, we bound him ; But he lay, like a warrior taking... | |
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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. 
