<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409950" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sheridan At Cedar Creek</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(October, 1864)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shoe the steed with silver<br>That bore him to the fray,<br>When he heard the guns at dawning-<br>Miles away;<br>When he heard them calling, calling-<br>Mount! nor stay:<br>Quick, or all is lost;<br>They've surprised and stormed the post.<br>They push your routed host-<br>Gallop! retrieve the day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">House the horse in ermine-<br>For the foam-flake blew<br>White through red October;<br>He thundered into view;<br>They cheered him in the looming,<br>Horseman and horse they knew.<br>The turn of the tide began,<br>The rally of bugles ran,<br>He swung his hat in the van;<br>The electric hoof-spark flew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wreathe the steed and lead him-<br>For the charge he led<br>Touched and turned the cypress<br>Into amaranths for the head<br>Of Philip, king of riders,<br>Who raised them from the dead<br>The camp (at dawning lost),<br>By eve, recovered-forced,<br>Rang with the laughter of the host<br>At belated Early fled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shroud the horse in sable-<br>For the mounds they heap!<br>There is firing in the Valley,<br>And yet no strife they keep;<br>It is the parting volley,<br>It is the pathos deep.<br>There is glory for the brave<br>Who lead, and nobly save,<br>But no knowledge in the grave<br>Where the nameless followers sleep.</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409950" data-title="Sheridan At Cedar Creek de Herman Melville" data-description="(October, 1864) Shoe the steed with silver That bore him to the fray, When he heard the guns at dawning- Miles away; When he heard them calling, calling- Mount! nor stay: Quick, or all is lost; They've surprised and stormed the post. They push yo..."></div> </div> </div>

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