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"Under the Disaster of the Second Manassas"
They take no shame for dark defeat / While prizing yet each victory won, / Who fight for the Right through all retreat, / Nor pause until their work is done.
The Cape-of-Storms is proof to every throe; / Vainly against that foreland beat / Wild winds aloft and wilder waves below: / The black cliffs gleam through rents in sleet / When the livid Antarctic storm-clouds glow.