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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409909" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Chattanooga</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">November, 1863</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A kindling impulse seized the host<br>Inspired by heaven's elastic air;<br>Their hearts outran their General's plan,<br>Though Grant commanded there--<br>Grant, who without reserve can dare;<br>And, 'Well, go on and do your will,'<br>He said, and measured the mountain then:<br>So master-riders fling the rein--<br>But you must know your men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On yester-morn in grayish mist,<br>Armies like ghosts on hills had fought,<br>And rolled from the cloud their thunders loud<br>The Cumberlands far had caught:<br>To-day the sunlit steeps are sought.<br>Grant stood on cliffs whence all was plain,<br>And smoked as one who feels no cares;<br>But mastered nervousness intense<br>Alone such calmness wears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The summit-cannon plunge their flame<br>Sheer down the primal wall,<br>But up and up each linking troop<br>In stretching festoons crawl--<br>Nor fire a shot. Such men appall<br>The foe, though brave. He, from the brink,<br>Looks far along the breadth of slope,<br>And sees two miles of dark dots creep,<br>And knows they mean the cope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He sees them creep. Yet here and there<br>Half hid 'mid leafless groves they go;<br>As men who ply through traceries high<br>Of turreted marbles show--<br>So dwindle these to eyes below.<br>But fronting shot and flanking shell<br>Sliver and rive the inwoven ways;<br>High tops of oaks and high hearts fall,<br>But never the climbing stays.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From right to left, from left to right<br>They roll the rallying cheer--<br>Vie with each other, brother with brother,<br>Who shall the first appear--<br>What color-bearer with colors clear<br>In sharp relief, like sky-drawn Grant,<br>Whose cigar must now be near the stump--<br>While in solicitude his back<br>Heaps slowly to a hump.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Near and more near; till now the flags<br>Run like a catching flame;<br>And one flares highest, to peril nighest--<br>_He_ means to make a name:<br>Salvos! they give him his fame.<br>The staff is caught, and next the rush,<br>And then the leap where death has led;<br>Flag answered flag along the crest,<br>And swarms of rebels fled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But some who gained the envied Alp,<br>And--eager, ardent, earnest there--<br>Dropped into Death's wide-open arms,<br>Quelled on the wing like eagles struck in<br>air--<br>Forever they slumber young and fair,<br>The smile upon them as they died;<br>Their end attained, that end a height:<br>Life was to these a dream fulfilled,<br>And death a starry night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Herman+Melville">Herman Melville</a><div class=q>
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A kindling impulse seized the host
Inspired by heaven's elastic air;
Their hearts outran their General's plan,
Though Grant commanded there--
Grant, who without reserve can dare;
And, 'Well, go on and do your will,'
He said, and me..."></div>
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