The Fortitude Of The North

by Herman Melville

　　

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Under the Disaster of the Second Manassas!They take no shame for dark defeat While prizing yet each victory won,Who fight for the Right through all retreat, Nor pause until their work is done.The Cape-of-Storms is proof to every throe; Vainly against that foreland beatWild winds aloft and wilder waves below:The black cliffs gleam through rents in sleetWhen the livid Antarctic storm-clouds glow.

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