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America
Apathy And Enthusiasm
Chattanooga
Falstaffs Lament Over Prince Hal Become Henry V
From, The Conflict of Convictions
Gold in the Mountain
Immolated
In The Old Farm-house
In the Paupers Turnip-Field
Jack Roy
Malvern Hill
Misgivings
Sheridan at Cedar Creek
Shiloh
The Berg (a Dream)
The Chipmunk
The Enthusiast
The House-Top
The Maldive Shark
The Mound by the Lake
The Stone Fleet
The Temeraire
Misgivings of Misgivings - by Melville, Herman
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When ocean-clouds over inland hills
Sweep storming in late autumn brown,
And horror the sodden valley fills,
And the spire falls crashing in the town,
I muse upon my country's ills--
The tempest burning from the waste of Time
On the world's fairest hope linked with man's foulest crime.

Nature's dark side is heeded now--
(Ah! optimist-cheer disheartened flown)--
A child may read the moody brow
Of yon black mountain lone.
With shouts the torrents down the gorges go,
And storms are formed behind the storms we feel:
The hemlock shakes in the rafter, the oak in the driving keel.

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