Not the Pilot.

Part of the cluster DRUM-TAPS.

NOT THE PILOT.

NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship
into port, though beaten back, and many times
baffled; Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and
long, By deserts parch'd, snows-chill'd, rivers wet, perseveres
till he reaches his destination, More than I have charged myself, heeded or unheeded,
to compose a free march for These States, To be exhilarating music to them—a battle-call, rousing
to arms, if need be—years, centuries hence.

Part of the cluster DRUM-TAPS.