"I see them on their winding way" by Bishop Reginald Herber
I see them on their winding way
| I see them on their winding way | Biography of Reginald Herber |
| About their ranks the moonbeams play. | Description of the poem's formal elements |
| Their lofty deeds and daring high | Explication of poem |
| Blend with the notes of victory, | |
| And waving arms and banners bright | |
| are glancing in the mellow light | |
| They're lost and gone - the moon is past | |
| The dark wood's shade is oer them cast, | |
| And fainter, fainter fainter still | |
| The march is rising o'er the hill - rising | |
| oer the hill - rising oer the hill. | |
| I see them on their winding way. &c |
2.
Again, again, the pealing drum
The clashing horn, they come! they come!
Thro' rocky pass, o'er wooded steep,
In long and glittering files they sweep,
and nearer, nearer, yet more near -
Their softened chorus meets the ear
Forth, forth, and meet them on their
way,
The trampling hoofs brook no delay
With thrilling fife and pealing drum
And clashing horn they come, they
come,
They come, they come, they come, they come!
I see them on their winding way &c
Heber