The long, slow roar of Niagara: O the wonder

Of that deep sound. But again the battle broke

And the foe, driven before us desperately—stroke upon stroke,

Left the field to his master, and sullenly down the road

Sounded the boom of his guns, trailing the heavy load

Of his wounded men and his shattered flags, sullen and slow,

Setting fire in his rage to Bridgewater mills and the glow

Flared in the distant forest. We rested as we could,

And for a while I slept in the dark of a maple wood:

But when the clouds in the east were red all over,