| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 374. Bivouac on a Mountain Side |
| | | By Walt Whitman |
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| I SEE before me now a travelling army halting, | |
| Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer, | |
| Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high, | |
| Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen, | |
| The numerous camp-fires scattered near and far, some away up on the mountain, | 5 |
| The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-sized, flickering, | |
| And over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, breaking out, the eternal stars. | |
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