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Coming
By Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872)
(April, 1861)
W
Hark to the ominous sound;
How the far-off gales their battle form,
And the great sea-swells feel ground!
Nearer and nearer it comes!
The horizon thunder of cannon-breath
And the roar of angry drums!
Swoop o’er the Land to-day—
So the mist of wrong and crime,
The breath of our Evil Time
Be swept, as by fire, away!