Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VIII. National Spirit. 1904. | | | | III. War | | Coming | | Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) |
| | [April, 1861]
WORLD, art thou ’ware of a storm? | |
| Hark to the ominous sound; | |
| How the far-off gales their battle form, | |
| And the great sea-swells feel ground! | |
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| It comes, the Typhoon of Death— | 5 |
| Nearer and nearer it comes! | |
| The horizon thunder of cannon-breath | |
| And the roar of angry drums! | |
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| Hurtle, Terror sublime! | |
| Swoop o’er the Land to-day— | 10 |
| So the mist of wrong and crime, | |
| The breath of our Evil Time | |
| Be swept, as by fire, away! | | | | |
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