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.