StoryTitle("caps", "The Burial of Sir John Moore") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(77, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As his corse to the rampart we hurried; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O'er the grave where our hero we buried.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We buried him darkly at dead of night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The sods with our bayonets turning; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the lantern dimly burning.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No useless coffin inclosed his breast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With his martial cloak around him.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Few and short were the prayers we said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And we spoke not a word of sorrow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And we bitterly thought of the morrow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And smoothed down his lonely pillow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And we far away on the billow!", "") ?>
PagePoem(78, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the grave where a Briton has laid him. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But half of our heavy task was done ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When the clock struck the hour for retiring, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And we heard the distant and random gun ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That the foe was sullenly firing. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Slowly and sadly we laid him down, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From the field of his fame fresh and gory; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But we left him alone with his glory! ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Charles Wolfe. ")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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