BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE.

1I see before me now a traveling army halting,

2Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,

3Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising

4high,

5Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily

6seen,

7The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some away up on the

8mountain,

9The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-sized,

10flickering,

11And over all the sky--the sky! far, far out of reach, studded,

12breaking out, the eternal stars.