Friday, January 3, 2003

Bivouac On A Mountain Side Comments

Rating: 3.1

I see before me now a traveling army halting,
Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards 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,
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Walt Whitman
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Jane Moon 14 May 2009

Whitman recalls images from the Civil War, vivid and real in nighttime in the Virginia mountains.

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