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Malvern Hill

Malvern Hill

Ye elms that wave on Malvern Hill

In prime of morn and May,

Recall ye how McClellan's men

Here stood at bay?

While deep within yon forest dim

Our rigid comrades lay -

Some with the cartridge in their mouth,

Others with fixed arms lifted South -

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A Dirge For McPherson

A Dirge For McPherson

Arms reversed and banners creped —

Muffled drums;

Snowy horses sable-draped —

McPherson comes.

But, tell us, shall we know him more,

Lost-Mountain and lone Kenesaw?

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The Apparition: A Retrospect

The Apparition: A Retrospect

Convulsions came; and, where the field

Long slept in pastoral green,

A goblin-mountain was upheaved

(Sure the scared sense was all deceived),

Marl-glen and slag-ravine.

The unreserve of Ill was there,

The clinkers in her last retreat;

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The Stone Fleet

The Stone Fleet

I have a feeling for those ships,

Each worn and ancient one,

With great bluff bows, and broad in the beam:

Ay, it was unkindly done.

But so they serve the Obsolete—

Even so, Stone Fleet!

You'll say I'm doting; do but think

I scudded round the Horn in one—

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Misgivings

Misgivings

When ocean-clouds over inland hills

Sweep storming in late autumn brown,

And horror the sodden valley fills,

And the spire falls crashing in the town,

I muse upon my country's ills—

The tempest burning from the waste of Time

On the world's fairest hope linked with man's foulest crime.

Nature's dark side is heeded now—

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The Victor Of Antietam

The Victor Of Antietam

When tempest winnowed grain from bran;

And men were looking for a man,

Authority called you to the van,

McClellan:

Along the line the plaudit ran,

As later when Antietam's cheers began.

Through storm-cloud and eclipse must move

Each Cause and Man, dear to the stars and Jove;

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Gold In The Mountain

Gold In The Mountain

Gold in the mountain,

And gold in the glen,

And greed in the heart,

Heaven having no part,

And unsatisfied men.

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Shiloh - A Requiem

Shiloh - A Requiem

Skimming lightly, wheeling still,

The swallows fly low

Over the field in clouded days,

The forest-field of Shiloh —

Over the field where April rain

Solaced the parched one stretched in pain

Through the pause of night

That followed the Sunday fight

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The College Colonel

The College Colonel

He rides at their head;

A crutch by his saddle just slants in view,

One slung arm in splints, you see,

Yet he guides his strong steed — how coldly too.

He brings his regiment home —

Not as they filed two years before,

But a remnant half-tattered, and battered, and worn,

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The Maldive Shark

The Maldive Shark

About the Shark, phlegmatical one,

Pale sot of the Maldive sea,

The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim,

How alert in attendance be.

From his saw-pit of mouth, from his charnel of maw,

They have nothing of harm to dread,

But liquidly glide on his ghastly flank

Or before his Gorgonian head;

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The House-Top

The House-Top

No sleep. The sultriness pervades the air

And blinds the brain—a dense oppression, such

As tawny tigers feel in matted shades,

Vexing their blood and making apt for ravage.

Beneath the stars the roofy desert spreads

Vacant as Libya. All is hushed near by.

Yet fitfully from far breaks a mixed surf

Of muffled sound, the Atheist roar of riot.

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A Utilitarian View Of The Monitor's Fight

A Utilitarian View Of The Monitor's Fight

Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse,

More ponderous than nimble;

For since grimed War here laid aside

His painted pomp, 'twould ill befit

Overmuch to ply

The rhyme's barbaric symbol.

Hail to victory without the gaud

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