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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Coffin

No useless coffin enclos’d his breast,
Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him;
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.
Rev. Chas. Wolfe.—Monody on the Death of Sir John Moore.