Lyr Req: Burial of Sir John Moore after Coruna

19 Feb 03 - 05:24 AM (#893339)
Subject: Lyr Req: Burial of Sir John Moore after Coruna
From: Edain

Has any one got the words? It starts off;

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note
As he corpse to the ramparts we hurried.
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot
O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
We buried him sadly, at dead of night
The sods with our baynets turning
We steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead
And we bitterly thought on the morrow

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19 Feb 03 - 05:32 AM (#893341)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Burial of Sir John Moore after Coruna
From: IanC

here.

:-)

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19 Feb 03 - 05:33 AM (#893343)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT CORUNNA
From: IanC

Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note,
    As his corse to the rampart we hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot
    O'er the grave where our hero we buried.

We buried him darkly at dead of night,
    The sods with our bayonets turning;
By the struggling moonbeam's misty light
    And the lanthorn dimly burning.

   No useless coffin enclosed his breast,
    Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him;
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest
    With his martial cloak around him.

Few and short were the prayers we said,
    And we spoke not a word of sorrow;
But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead,
    And we bitterly thought of the morrow.

We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed
    And smoothed down his lonely pillow,
That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head,
    And we far away on the billow!

Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone
    And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,--
But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on
    In the grave where a Briton has laid him.

But half of our heavy task was done
    When the clock struck the hour for retiring:
And we heard the distant and random gun
    That the foe was sullenly firing.

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,
    But left him alone with his glory.

by Charles Wolfe

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19 Feb 03 - 05:36 AM (#893344)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Burial of Sir John Moore after Coruna
From: GUEST,MCP

There are at least 5 copies at The Bodleian Ballad Collection (eg Burial of Sir John Moore). If you search on Burial you'll find them.

Mick

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19 Feb 03 - 12:58 PM (#893553)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Burial of Sir John Moore after Coruna
From: Edain

cheers all

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20 Feb 03 - 03:59 AM (#894123)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Burial of Sir John Moore after Coruna
From: GUEST

They buried him darkly at dead of night, the sods!

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20 Feb 03 - 04:49 AM (#894139)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Burial of Sir John Moore after Coruna
From: GUEST,Hrothgar

That last one was me. What the hell happened to my cookie??

Stinking machines are out to get me. Mumble, mumble ...

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