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Line Clear to Witteputs! I wind around the guarded hill, / And thunder o'er the lean long bridge that spans the sombre / stream; / No uptorn rail to devastate, no culvert gap to fill, / And where the outpost feared to ride, I gather up my steam.
(_I passed a little mound of earth that bore the cross's / sign, -- _ / _A Colonel, and a dozen men, who fell to clear the line._)