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BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE.

I SEE before me now, a traveling army halting;

Below, a fertile valley spread, with barns, and the orch-          ards 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;

The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some          away up on the mountain;

The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-          sized, flickering;

And over all, the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach,          studded with the eternal stars.

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