...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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