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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 283 (search)
96. bombardment of forts Walker and Beauregard. by Isaac M'Clellan. Part I.--the arrival. I. Six-and-sixty gallant ships, tempest-toss'd By the angry seas assailed, well-nigh lost Off hostile Carolina's sandy coast, Spread the straining, daring sail; They had come from Northern shores far away, They had battled with old ocean's stormy spray, But triumphant still their course southward lay Through the equinoctial gale. II. Wild surges in mountainous billows rose, Wild the gale its majestic trumpet blows, Wild the night with intenser darkness grows, As the buffeting, brave fleet, Struggles on, staggers blindly through the gloom-- No light, save the lightning, to illume, To warn them where the tumbling breakers boom, Where the eddying whirlpools beat; III. But the perils of the deep ‘scap'd at last, With torn and tattered canvas on each mast, Behold the noble navy sailing fast By the headlands of the shore! Like a flock of white-wing'd owl, see! they come; Like the sea-birds to the