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The Fortitude Of The North
By Herman Melville

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     Under the Disaster of the Second Manassas

     They take no shame for dark defeat
       While prizing yet each victory won,
     Who fight for the Right through all retreat,
       Nor pause until their work is done.
     The Cape-of-Storms is proof to every throe;
       Vainly against that foreland beat
     Wild winds aloft and wilder waves below:
     The black cliffs gleam through rents in sleet
     When the livid Antarctic storm-clouds glow.
 
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