And vomited fire and death;
Till we saw it was madness to charge them,
And halted a moment for breath.
Ah, stranger, imagine the picture,
And then stand with horror aghast—
We had fought for a month without sleeping,
And we stood facing failure at last!
We had squandered the best of our Army,
We had “stuck” to our ultimate gasp;
And there, in the moment of triumph,