Produced by Distributed Proofreading DRUM-TAPS By Walt Whitman CONTENTS INTRODUCTION FIRST O SONGS FOR A PRELUDE EIGHTEEN SIXTY-ONE BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS! FROM PAUMANOK STARTING I FLY LIKE A BIRD SONG OF THE BANNER AT DAYBREAK RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS VIRGINIA--THE WEST CITY OF SHIPS THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH BY THE BIVOUAC'S FITFUL FLAME COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT A MARCH IN THE RANKS HARD-PREST, AND THE ROAD UNKNOWN A SIGHT IN CAMP IN THE DAYBREAK GRAY AND DIM AS TOILSOME I WANDER'D VIRGINIA'S WOODS NOT THE PILOT YEAR THAT TREMBLED AND REEL'D BENEATH ME THE WOUND-DRESSER LONG, TOO LONG AMERICA GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS OVER THE CARNAGE ROSE PROPHETIC A VOICE I SAW OLD GENERAL AT BAY THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLOURS NOT YOUTH PERTAINS TO ME RACE OF VETERANS WORLD TAKE GOOD NOTICE O TAN-FACED PRAIRIE-BOY LOOK DOWN FAIR MOON RECONCILIATION HOW SOLEMN AS ONE BY ONE AS I LAY WITH MY HEAD IN YOUR LAP CAMERADO DELICATE CLUSTER TO A CERTAIN CIVILIAN LO, VICTRESS ON THE PEAKS SPIRIT WHOSE WORK IS DONE ADIEU TO A SOLDIER TURN O LIBERTAD TO THE LEAVEN'D SOIL THEY TROD NOTE The Introduction is reprinted, by permission, from _The Times_ Literary Supplement of April 1, 1915. INTRODUCTION