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BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE.
I SEE before me now, a traveling
army halting;
Below, a fertile valley spread, with barns, and the orch- ards of summer;
Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt in places, rising high;
Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes; dingily seen;
The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some away up on the mountain;
The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large- sized, flickering;
And over all, the sky — the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.
Below, a fertile valley spread, with barns, and the orch- ards of summer;
Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt in places, rising high;
Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes; dingily seen;
The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some away up on the mountain;
The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large- sized, flickering;
And over all, the sky — the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.
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