Explore "The Released Rebel Prisoner. 1865 (Poems from Battle Pieces)" 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 superstitution of vast pride / Humbled to such defeat.