...John Moore at Corunna', which begins: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse \sic) to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged...farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we buried."' The 'matching' smnza in the Bennett poem reads: Not a stone was fling, not a samfie sting, Not a soul...

...struggles that may have to follow. 12 Morris cites stanzas one and four of the Wolfe original: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed...

...inspired the famous poem 'The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna', which begins so evocatively: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. The arrival from Corunna of the piteous, emaciated British soldiers, who had almost perished as a result...

...Corunna',9 a British poem much recited by colonial schoolchildren in Jamaica. That poem begins: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note As his corse to...hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er his grave where our hero we buried. In the Creole parody by Louise Bennett, it is as though the coloniser...

...ritmes canviants d'aquests versos sobre la mort de John Moore durant la batalla de la Corunya7. 1. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a solider discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. k Compareu aquest cor...

...accompaniments, though it may be " Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As Ms corse to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where oar hero we buried." The mass of men serve the State thus, not as men mainly, bat as machines, with...

...and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried." The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are...

...TIRABEQUES A LA CORUflESA Corunna in Galicia, the north-west corner of Spain, may be famous to us for the burial of Sir John Moore - 'Not a drum was heard,...funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried' - but if you were to ask a Spaniard he would be more likely to say scallops and oysters, then he might...

...the story. " 'Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried ; Sot a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darklj at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the straggling moonbeam's misty light,...

...Coruna passed away at the hour of victory. Let the well-known lines by Wolfe finish the story. " X ot a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried ; Sot a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried,...