 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828
...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. No useless...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... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 395 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 383 Seiten
...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 - 251 Seiten
...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.) - 1828 - 560 Seiten
...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 - 1828 - 300 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Charles Wolfe - 1828 - 294 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 404 Seiten
...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 —... | |
 | 1829
...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 - 1829 - 276 Seiten
...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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With his martial cloak around him. 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. 
