The Fortitude Of The North Under the Disaster of the Second Manassas

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Title:     The Fortitude Of The North Under the Disaster of the Second Manassas
Author: Herman Melville [More Titles by Melville]

They take no shame for dark defeat
While prizing yet each victory won,
Who fight for the Right through all retreat,
Nor pause until their work is done.
The Cape-of-Storms is proof to every throe;
Vainly against that foreland beat
Wild winds aloft and wilder waves below:
The black cliffs gleam through rents in sleet
When the livid Antarctic storm-clouds glow.

[The end]
Herman Melville's poem: Fortitude Of The North

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