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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409987" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Victor Of Antietam</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When tempest winnowed grain from bran;<br>And men were looking for a man,<br>Authority called you to the van,<br>McClellan:<br>Along the line the plaudit ran,<br>As later when Antietam's cheers began.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through storm-cloud and eclipse must move<br>Each Cause and Man, dear to the stars and Jove;<br>Nor always can the wisest tell<br>Deferred fulfillment from the hopeless knell-<br>The struggler from the floundering ne'er-do-well.<br>A pall-cloth on the Seven Days fell,<br>McClellan:<br>Unprosperously heroical!<br>Who could Antietam's wreath foretell?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Authority called you; then, in mist<br>And loom of jeopardy-dismissed.<br>But staring peril soon appalled;<br>You, the Discarded, she recalled-<br>Recalled you, nor endured delay;<br>And forth you rode upon a blasted way,<br>Arrayed Pope's rout, and routed Lee's array,<br>McClellan:<br>Your tent was choked with captured flags that day,<br>McClellan:<br>Antietam was a telling fray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Recalled you; and she heard your drum<br>Advancing through the ghastly gloom.<br>You manned the wall, you propped the Dome,<br>You stormed the powerful stormer home.<br>McClellan:<br>Antietam's cannon long shall boom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At Alexandria, left alone,<br>McClellan:<br>Your veterans sent from you, and thrown<br>To fields and fortunes all unknown-<br>What thoughts were yours, revealed to none,<br>While faithful still you labored on-<br>Hearing the far Manassas gun!<br>McClellan:<br>Only Antietam could atone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You fought in the front (an evil day,<br>McClellan)-<br>The fore-front of the first assay;<br>The Cause went sounding, groped its way;<br>The leadsmen quarrelled in the bay;<br>Quills thwarted swords; divided sway;<br>The rebel flushed in his lusty May:<br>You did your best, as in you lay,<br>McClellan.<br>Antietam's sun-burst sheds a ray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your medalled soldiers love you well,<br>McClellan:<br>Name your name, their true hearts swell;<br>With you they shook dread Stonewall's spell,<br>With you they braved the blended yell<br>Of rebel and maligner fell;<br>With you in shame or fame they dwell,<br>McClellan:<br>Antietam-braves a brave can tell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when your comrades (now so few,<br>McClellan-<br>Such ravage in deep files they rue)<br>Meet round the board, and sadly view<br>The empty places; tribute due<br>They render to the dead-and you!<br>Absent and silent o'er the blue;<br>The one-armed lift the wine to you,<br>McClellan,<br>And great Antietam's cheers renew.</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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And men were looking for a man,
Authority called you to the van,
McClellan:
Along the line the plaudit ran,
As later when Antietam's cheers began.

Through storm-cloud and eclipse must move
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