Lo! where the arm'd men hasten—Lo! 'mid the clouds of dust,

the glint of bayonets;"


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"O trumpeter! methinks I am myself the instrument thou playest!

Thou melt'st my heart, my brain—thou movest, drawest,

changest them, at will:

And now thy sullen notes send darkness through me;

Thou takest away all cheering light—all hope:

I see the enslaved, the overthrown, the hurt, the opprest of the