1. 1800

  • Burial of Moses

       “And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.”—DEUTERONOMY xxxiv. 6.

    BY Nebo’s lonely mountain,
    On this side Jordan’s wave,
    In a vale in the land of Moab,
    There lies a lonely grave;
    But no man built that sepulchre,
    And no man saw it e’er;
    For the angels of...

    Cecil Frances Alexander

  • Burial of Sir John Moore

    [Corunna, Spain, January 16, 1809]
    NOT a drum was heard, not 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 moonbeams’ misty light,
      And...

    Charles Wolfe