To bless the spot that holds thy dust.
[82] Burns was born in a clay cottage, which his father had built with his own hands.
[83] Major Edward Hodge, of the 7th Hussars, who fell at the head of his squadron in the attack of the Polish Lancers.
THE SOLDIER’S DREAM.
Our bugles sang truce—for the night-cloud had lowered,
And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky;
And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered,
The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.