 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.  Cyclopædia of English literature - Sivu 410tekijä(t) Robert Chambers - 1844Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1856 - 666 sivua
...lanterns 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 his...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gaz'd on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 sivua
...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...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away ou the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 sivua
...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 —...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 hollow'd his... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 sivua
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow : But we stedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 sivua
...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...we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly looked on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollowed his... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 sivua
...lantern dimly hurning. No useless coffin enclosed his hreast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his...steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we hitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollow'd his narrow hed, And smoothed down his lonely... | |
 | Bernard Cornwell - 2009 - 338 sivua
...God," Harper crossed himself, then looked with horror at Sharpe. Lord Cochrane reverted to poetry: "Few and short were the prayers we said. And we spoke...was dead. And we bitterly thought of the morrow." Then His Lordship began to laugh, and his laugh swelled to fill the whole church, for in the coffin,... | |
 | 2013 - 249 sivua
...with our bayonets turning, By the straggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lanthom dimly burning. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we bollow'd his narrow bed And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread... | |
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