By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame

Walt Whitman * Track #135 On Leaves of Grass

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Album Leaves of Grass

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Walt Whitman

1855

By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame by Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman

By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame Annotated

By the bivouac's fitful flame,
A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow—but
first I note,
The tents of the sleeping army, the fields' and woods' dim outline,
The darkness lit by spots of kindled fire, the silence,
Like a phantom far or near an occasional figure moving,
The shrubs and trees, (as I lift my eyes they seem to be stealthily
watching me,)
While wind in procession thoughts, O tender and wondrous thoughts,
Of life and death, of home and the past and loved, and of those that
are far away;
A solemn and slow procession there as I sit on the ground,
By the bivouac's fitful flame.

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