Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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CHARLES WOLFE.  1791-1823.

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,

As his corse to the rampart we hurried.

The Burial of Sir John Moore.

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,

With his martial cloak around him.

The Burial of Sir John Moore.

Slowly and sadly we laid him down,

From the field of his fame fresh and gory;

We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone,