Explore "Lyon. Battle of Springfield, Missouri. (August, 1861.)" by Herman Melville on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Some hearts there are of deeper sort, / Prophetic, sad, / Which yet for cause are trebly clad; / Known death they fly on: / This wizard-heart and heart-of-oak had Lyon.
"They are more than twenty thousand strong, / We less than five, / Too few with such a host to strive" / "Such counsel, fie on! / 'Tis battle, or 'tis shame; " and firm stood Lyon.