Of the proudest of her husband’s blood.

XI.

1.

Like an affluent, royal town, the summer camps

Of a hundred thousand men are stretched away.

At night, like multitudinous city lamps,

Their numberless watch-fires beacon, clear and still,

And a glory beams from the zenith lit

With lurid vapors that over its star-lights flit;

But wreaths of opaline cloud o’erhang, by day,