• [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...