Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898 · Boston : [J. Wilson & Son, University Press] · leaf 133
ldier to stay ; But sorrow returned with the dawning of morn,And the voice in my dreaming ear melted aw^ay. Campbell. oOitHo* T//£ BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note.As his corse to the ramparts we hiuried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shotOer the grave… … No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,With his martial cloak around him. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. 115 Few and short were the praj^ers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ;But we steadfastly gazed on the…
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