And through them all, from each to each, went eager glance of mine,
Till in their very centre there I saw one on his horse,
His orders coolly giving, the commander of their force.
I knew him! I could not forget! ’Twas he whose angry blow
Had smote my darling to the death; he should not ’scape me so.
I cast my plain coat to the ground. “Quaker, lie there!” said I.
“Yon is the son of Amalek! I’ll smite him hip and thigh!”
And from the ground that musket caught, and o’er its barrel drew
A bead as fine as a needle’s point: the ball his breast went through.
The musket dropped from out my hands—a fellow man I’d slain;