 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 564 pages
...honourably, because ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud they bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.' It is assumed, of course, that no frightful accumulations of interment would be crowded into a narrow... | |
 | 1813 - 410 pages
...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 rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; i But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | 1817 - 708 pages
...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 rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said. And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we stediastly gazed... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 502 pages
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest. With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word uf'sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 pages
...shroud we bound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, ¿Vith his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothd (lown his lonely pillow, r1¿hnt the foe and... | |
 | James Mudie - 1820 - 204 pages
...lanthorns dimly burning. No useless coffin inclos'd his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him — But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him ! We thought, as we hollow'd, his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...bound him; But he lay like a warrior takhig his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Anonymous. / Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow; But we stedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought on the morrow.... | |
 | Renfrew county - 1821 - 542 pages
...lanteru 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 rest, With his martial cloak around him. Pew and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we stedfastly gaz'd... | |
 | Select readings - 1824 - 300 pages
...shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With bis martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, , But we steadfastly gaz'd on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 496 pages
...•.!-,-,;, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Nor 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 prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow;'-, i••••<. .\ .•-,•... | |
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we wound 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... 
