Explore "The Battle for the Mississipppi. (April, 1862.)" by Herman Melville on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
When Israel camped by Migdol hoar, / Down at her feet her shawm she threw, / But Moses sung and timbrels rung / For Pharaoh's standed crew. / So God appears in apt events -- / The Lord is a man of war! / So the strong wind to the muse is given / In victory's roar.
Deep be the ode that hymns the fleet -- / The fight by night -- the fray / Which bore our Flag against the powerful stream, / And led it up to day. / Dully through din of larger strife / Shall bay that warring gun; / But none the less to us who live / It peals -- an echoing one.