Not a man, and yet a man / by A.A. Whitman [electronic text]

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Not a man, and yet a man / by A.A. Whitman [electronic text]
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Whitman, Albery Allson, 1851-1901
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Springfield, Ohio: Republic Printing Company
1877
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SONNET.—THE MONTENEGRIN.

Undaunted watcher of the mountain track, Tho' surging cohorts like a sea below, Against thy cliff-walled homes their thunders throw; Proud, whilst thy rocky fastness answers back The fierce, long menace of the Turk's attack, Thy eagle ken above the tumult flies,

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The hostile plain spurns, and its prowess black, And lights on strongholds terraced in the skies; There thou wilt quicker than the roe-buck bound, If bolder dangers mount to force thy pass; But not till thou a signal brave hast wound, That hears responses from each peak around, And calls thy comrade clans-in-arms, to mass In high defence, when battle stern begins— Then who can conquer the Montenegrins?
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