Explore "Sheridan at Cedar Creek. 1849 (Poems from Battle Pieces)" by Herman Melville on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Shoe the steed with silver / That bore him to the fray, / When he heard the guns at dawning- / Miles away; / When he heard them calling, calling- / Mount! nor stay: / Quick, or all is lost; / They've surprised and stormed the post, / They push your routed host- / Gallop! retrieve the day.
House the horse in ermine- / For the foam-flake blew / White through the red October; / He thundered into view; / They cheered him in the looming.