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The Night March
By Herman Melville

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     With banners furled and clarions mute,
       An army passes in the night;
     And beaming spears and helms salute
       The dark with bright.

     In silence deep the legions stream,
       With open ranks, in order true;
     Over boundless plains they stream and
         gleam—
       No chief in view!

     Afar, in twinkling distance lost,
       (So legends tell) he lonely wends
     And back through all that shining host
       His mandate sends.
 
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