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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SECOND DEPARTURE OF CUSTER, by MARY BOYNTON COWDREY
First Line: In phantom form and grand array
Last Line: To show a nation how they died.
Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America
First Line: In phantom form and grand array
Last Line: To show a nation how they died.
Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America
In phantom form and grand array
They stalk the valley through today,
A prelude to that distant hell
At Little Big Horn where they fell.
His lady with the leader rides,
A captain spurs Comanche's sides,
While after them, in columns long,
Six hundred men bring up with song.
Do they perceive the great renown
That waits them at the Indian town,
Where life and love are blood and dross,
Precluding everything but loss?
Do they suspect the bitter strife
Wherein each gives his precious life,
While Sitting Bull's red warriors hold
To racial hatreds, ages old?
No frown of fear assails a ghost
Of all that disembodied host,
As up the valley trail they ride
To show a Nation how they died.
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