Where the deluge rose and fell, and its stranded wrack

Had sown the loathing earth with human slain.

2.

Friends and foes,—who could discover which,

As they marked the zigzag, outer ditch,

Or lay so cold and still in the bush,

Fallen and trampled down in the last wild rush?

Then the shattered forest-trees; the clearing there

Where a battery stood; dead horses, pawing the air

With horrible upright hoofs; a mangled mass