Bivouac on a Mountain Side.

Part of the cluster DRUM-TAPS.

Bivouac on a Mountain Side.

I SEE before me now, a traveling army halting; Below, a fertile valley spread, with barns, and the
orchards of summer; Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt in
places, rising high! Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall
shapes, dingily seen; The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some
away up on the mountain; The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-
sized, flickering; And over all, the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach,
studded, breaking out, the eternal stars.

Part of the cluster DRUM-TAPS.