id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-301 chapter-301 .txt text/plain 241 12 76 From Far Dakotas Canyons [June 25, 1876] From far Dakotas canyons, Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, the silence, Haply to-day a mournful wall, haply a trumpet-note for heroes. The battle-bulletin, The Indian ambuscade, the craft, the fatal environment, The cavalry companies fighting to the last in sternest heroism, The loftiest of life upheld by death, O lesson opportune, O how I welcome thee! As sitting in dark days, (The sun there at the centre though conceald, Electric life forever at the centre,) Thou of the tawny flowing hair in battle, bright sword in thy hand, Now ending well in death the splendid fever of thy deeds, (I bring no dirge for it or thee, I bring a glad triumphal sonnet,) After thy many battles in which never yielding up a gun or a color, Leaving behind thee a memory sweet to soldiers, Thou yieldest up thyself. ./cache/chapter-301.txt ./txt/chapter-301.txt