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Chattanooga

Chattanooga

November, 1863

A kindling impulse seized the host

Inspired by heaven's elastic air;

Their hearts outran their General's plan,

Though Grant commanded there--

Grant, who without reserve can dare;

And, "Well, go on and do your will,"

He said, and measured the mountain then:

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The Portent

The Portent

Hanging from the beam,

Slowly swaying (such the law),

Gaunt the shadow on the green,

Shenandoah!

The cut is on the crown

(Lo, John Brown),

And the stabs shall heal no more.

Hidden in the cap

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A Meditation

A Meditation

How often in the years that close,

When truce had stilled the sieging gun,

The soldiers, mounting on their works,

With mutual curious glance have run

From face to face along the fronting show,

And kinsman spied, or friend--even in a foe.

What thoughts conflicting then were shared,

While sacred tenderness perforce

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Epilogue

Epilogue

_If Luther's day expand to Darwin's year,_

_Shall that exclude the hope--foreclose the fear?_

Unmoved by all the claims our times avow,

The ancient Sphinx still keeps the porch of

shade;

And comes Despair, whom not her calm may

cow,

And coldly on that adamantine brow

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Gold

Gold

We rovers bold,

To the land of Gold,

Over the bowling billows are gliding:

Eager to toil,

For the golden spoil,

And every hardship biding.

See! See!

Before our prows' resistless dashes

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Dirge

Dirge

Stay, Death, Not mine the Christus-wand

Wherewith to charge thee and command:

I plead. Most gently hold the hand

Of her thou leadest far away;

Fear thou to let her naked feet

Tread ashes--but let mosses sweet

Her footing tempt, where'er ye stray.

Shun Orcus; win the moonlit land

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In The Prison Pen

In The Prison Pen

1864

Listless he eyes the palisades

And sentries in the glare;

'Tis barren as a pelican-beach

But his world is ended there.

Nothing to do; and vacant hands

Bring on the idiot-pain;

He tries to think--to recollect,

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Crossing The Tropics

Crossing The Tropics

From "The Saya-y-Manto."

While now the Pole Star sinks from sight

The Southern Cross it climbs the sky;

But losing thee, my love, my light,

O bride but for one bridal night,

The loss no rising joys supply.

Love, love, the Trade Winds urge abaft,

And thee, from thee, they steadfast waft.

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Dupont’s Round Fight (November, 1861)

Dupont’s Round Fight (November, 1861)

In time and measure perfect moves

All Art whose aim is sure;

Evolving rhyme and stars divine

Have rules, and they endure.

Nor less the Fleet that warred for Right,

And, warring so, prevailed,

In geometric beauty curved,

And in an orbit sailed.

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Inscription

Inscription

_For Graves at Pea Ridge, Arkansas_

Let none misgive we died amiss

When here we strove in furious fight:

Furious it was; nathless was this

Better than tranquil plight,

And tame surrender of the Cause

Hallowed by hearts and by the laws.

We here who warred for Man and Right,

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Aurora Borealis

Aurora Borealis

_Commemorative of the Dissolution of armies at the Peace_

May, 1865

What power disbands the Northern Lights

After their steely play?

The lonely watcher feels an awe

Of Nature's sway,

As when appearing,

He marked their flashed uprearing

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Herba Santa

Herba Santa

I

After long wars when comes release

Not olive wands proclaiming peace

Can import dearer share

Than stems of Herba Santa hazed

In autumn's Indian air.

Of moods they breathe that care disarm,

They pledge us lenitive and calm.

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