Explore "The Muster: Suggested by the Two Days' Review at Washington (May, 1865.)" by Herman Melville on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The Abrahamic river -- / Patriarch of floods, / Calls the roll of all his streams / And watery mutitudes: / Torrent cries to torrent, / The rapids hail the fall; / With shouts the inland freshets / Gather to the call.
The quotas of the Nation, / Like the water-shed of waves, / Muster into union -- / Eastern warriors, Western braves.
Martial strains are mingling, / Though distant far the bands, / And the wheeling of the squadrons / Is like surf upon the sands.
The bladed guns are gleaming -- / Drift in lengthened trim, / Files on files for hazy miles -- / Nebulously dim.
O Milky Way of armies -- / Star rising after star, / New banners of the Commonwealths, / And eagles of the War.
The Abrahamic river / To sea-wide fullness fed, / Pouring from the thaw-lands / By the God of floods is led: / His deep enforcing current / The streams of ocean own, / And Europe's marge is evened / By rills from Kansas lone.