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As each day passed, some poor fellow was carried to his grave; the dead march played, and all that remained of our comrade was consigned to the grave.

Each man held his gun up-side down, as a sign that the dead would war no more, and the drums beat the dead march.

For every stroke of the clock is a death-bell sounding out a dead march for the wreck of his fairer hours.

They tuned up their bass viols and played their dead march.

The pipers of the Forty-Second and Ninety-Third, with muffled drums, played The Flowers of the Forest as a dead march.