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Bivouac on a Mountain Side

BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE.

I SEE before me now, a traveling army halting; Below, a fertile valley spread, with barns, and the orch- 
 ards 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 with the eternal stars.
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