The Abrahamic river -- Patriarch of floods, Calls the roll of all his streams And watery multitudes: 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON A PROPOSED TRIP SOUTH by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE NETHERLANDS by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE BREST LEFT BEHIND by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR TO A CHILD DURING SICKNESS by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT FOR [OR TO] THOSE WHO FAIL by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER THE ANGEL'S SONG; CAROL by EDMUND HAMILTON SEARS |