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The Burial of Sir John Moore
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(1817) The only poem of Charles Wolfe (1791–1823) to have caught and held the public's imagination. The account of the general being laid in the cold ground at *Corunna, under cover of darkness, without even coffin or shroud, in a place that tomorrow will be abandoned to the enemy, combines an undercurrent of patriotic celebration with some brutally down-to-earth details: We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning.
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