Explore "The Released Rebel Prisoner. (June, 1865.)" by Herman Melville on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Armies he's seen -- the herds of war, / But never such swarms of men / As now in the Nineveh of the North -- / How mad the Rebellion then!
And yet but dimly he divines / The depth of that deceit, / And superstition of vast pride / Humbled to such defeat.