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THE BELDING BANNERHEEDING•MICH IB \ N••The Burial of Sir John Moore.'*/ A writer In the Critic 1ms discovered why the author of that old time fu Torite of the school readers. 'The Burial of Sir John Moore. never succeeded In writing uny other poem which wan considered worth printing It appears that Tho Burial of Sir John Moore Is nothing but a transla tin from the French of a poem by 1-ally-Tollendal. an officer of the French army, who wrote the poem after the death of a fellow soldier Here ore two stan/as from the French poem:Nl le son d* tautshotir. • • • nl h* nanrntm funattta. • • •Nl |r feu fic-s soldata • • • no marquo won (fopoi'tMats du brave, n la !»«!©. a t raver* 1** tenebre*Mornea • • • nous pert*idea I® **»■ dssvro au rampart!Pe mlnuit e'etait 1'hcure, et solHaire «t sombre—I«n tune n peine ofTrnlt un d«»blle rayon; 1m ianternc tulnuil p«*nibl«llwnt done I’ombre.Quand de la halonnette on creusu If gason.The opening stanzas of The Burial ©f Sir John Moore * are as follows:Not a drum wai lusird, not u funeral noteAn litN corpse to the rampart we hurried;Not ii hnldler dlftduirged his farewell •hotO'er the grave where our hero woburied.We buried him darkly tit dead of night.The sods with our bayonets turning.By U»e struggling niooulienm*' misty light And the lantern dimly burning This similarity runs through the entire poem, and leaves no room for doubt that Rev. Charles Wolfe simply appropriated to his own use the work of the French poet, put a new title on It. and thus Instead of dying unknown beyond the boundaries of his little parish mode his name familiar to all English-speaking people. It was a master stroke on the part of Rev. Char lea. The Critics investigator ap pears to have been unable to discover where Lally-Tollendai stole the poem
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Belding Banner
Belding, Michigan, US
Thu, Aug 09, 1906
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