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Dupont's Round Fight
By Herman Melville

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	(November, 1861.)


	In time and measure perfect moves
	  All Art whose aim is sure;
	Evolving ryhme and stars divine
	  Have rules, and they endure.



	Nor less the Fleet that warred for Right,
	  And, warring so, prevailed,
	In geometric beauty curved,
	  And in an orbit sailed.



	The rebel at Port Royal felt
	  The Unity overawe,
	And rued the spell. A type was here,
	  And victory of Law.


 
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