—Strange, sweet Echo! even like thee replying.[414]

[414] This song is in the possession of Mr Power.

THE MUFFLED DRUM.[415]

The muffled drum was heard

In the Pyrenees by night,

With a dull, deep rolling sound,

Which told the hamlets round

Of a soldier’s burial-rite.

But it told them not how dear,

In a home beyond the main,