Our Heroic Themes : a Poem Read Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, July 20, 1865.
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1 watched with Thomas while his wary glance Marked the rash foes their heedless lines advance ; OUR HEROIC THEMES. Step after step he lured their willing feet Into the toils, from whence was no retreat Then with a swoop, as when the eagle swings Out of his eyry, with the roar of wings, The veteran fell upon his venturous prey, — And — let Bragg end it, if there 's aught to say. I saw with wonder Sherman's Titan line Pour from the mountains to the distant brme. Sweep treason's cradle bare of all... its brood. And turn its garden to a solitude. Fear ran before him. Famine groaned behind. And, following Famine, came the humble mind. Who felt a care within his bosom grow. Of more than pity for the hapless foe. Or spent a fear on that which Fate's decrees Already wrote amongst her victories. When in the tumult of the battled van Shone Fortune's darling, mounted Sheridan ? 10 OUE HEROIC THESIES. Rapid to plan and peerless in the fight, He plucked Fame's chaplet as by sovereign right ; Emerged triumphant from a wild retreat, And blazoned victory's colors on defeat.
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