Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (18331908). An American Anthology, 17871900. 1900. |
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373. Cavalry Crossing a Ford |
| By Walt Whitman |
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A LINE in long array where they wind betwixt green islands, | |
They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun,hark to the musical clank, | |
Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink, | |
Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person, a picture, the negligent rest on the saddles, | |
Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the fordwhile, | 5 |
Scarlet and blue and snowy white, | |
The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind. | |
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