The Walt Whitman Archive
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Books by Whitman
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AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH.
WITH its cloud of skirmishers in advance,
With now the sound of a single shot snapping like a whip, and
now an irregular volley,
now an irregular volley,
The swarming ranks press on and on, the dense brigades press
on,
on,
Glittering dimly, toiling under the sun—the dust-cover'd men,
In columns rise and fall to the undulations of the ground,
With artillery interspers'd—the wheels rumble, the horses sweat,
As the army corps advances.