On the Men of Maine killed in the Victory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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Title:     On the Men of Maine killed in the Victory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Author: Herman Melville [More Titles by Melville]

Afar they fell. It was the zone
Of fig and orange, cane and lime
(A land how all unlike their own,
With the cold pine-grove overgrown),
But still their Country's clime.
And there in youth they died for her--
The Volunteers,
For her went up their dying prayers:
So vast the Nation, yet so strong the tie.
What doubt shall come, then, to deter
The Republic's earnest faith and courage high.

[The end]
Herman Melville's poem: Fortitude Of The North

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