<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=534999" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From Far Dakota's Canons</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FROM far Dakota's cañons,<br> Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, the<br> silence,<br> Haply to-day a mournful wail, haply a trumpet-note for heroes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The battle-bulletin,<br> The Indian ambuscade, the craft, the fatal environment,<br> The cavalry companies fighting to the last in sternest heroism,<br> In the midst of their little circle, with their slaughter'd horses<br> for breastworks,<br> The fall of Custer and all his officers and men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Continues yet the old, old legend of our race,<br> The loftiest of life upheld by death, 10<br> The ancient banner perfectly maintain'd,<br> O lesson opportune, O how I welcome thee!<br> As sitting in dark days,<br> Lone, sulky, through the time's thick murk looking in vain for light,<br> for hope,<br> From unsuspected parts a fierce and momentary proof,<br> (The sun there at the centre though conceal'd,<br> Electric life forever at the centre,)<br> Breaks forth a lightning flash.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Thou of the tawny flowing hair in battle,<br> I erewhile saw, with erect head, pressing ever in front, bearing a<br> bright sword in thy hand, 20<br> Now ending well in death the splendid fever of thy deeds,<br> (I bring no dirge for it or thee, I bring a glad triumphal sonnet,)<br> Desperate and glorious, aye in defeat most desperate, most glorious,<br> After thy many battles in which never yielding up a gun or a color<br> Leaving behind thee a memory sweet to soldiers,<br> Thou yieldest up thyself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walt+Whitman">Walt Whitman</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=534999" data-title="From Far Dakota's Canons de Walt Whitman" data-description="FROM far Dakota's cañons, Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, the silence, Haply to-day a mournful wail, haply a trumpet-note for heroes. The battle-bulletin, The Indian ambuscade, the craft, the fatal environme..."></div> </div> </div>

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