FEINBERG/WHITMAN          LITERARY FILE          POETRY FILE      "Over and Through the Burial Chant" (1888). Printed Copy.
Box 28 Folder 28

Includes notations.[*Funeral Interpolations*]

Over and through the burial chant,
Organ and solemn service, sermon, bending priests,
[To me ] Come interpolation sounds not in the show—
    plainly to me, crowding up the aisle and from 
    the window.
Of sudden battle's hurry and harsh noises—war's,
    war's grim game to sight and ear in earnest;
The scout call'd up and forward—the General 
    mounted and his aides around him—the new:
    brought word—the instantaneous order issued; 
The rifle crack—the cannon thud—the rushing forth 
    of men from their tents;
The clank of cavalry—the strange celerity of forming 
    ranks—the slender bugle note;
The sound of horses' hoofs departing—saddles, 
    arms, accoutrements.
[WALT WHITMAN.]

[*Aug
[*12
[*'88
[*Herald*]

AT THE FUNERALsummer. A half frozen swallow family attracted 
by the light and heat of an open air 
swinging lamp, have arranged a roosting place 
on the cross piece above the lamp, and spend 
each night swinging backward and forward 
with the lamp, preferring the noise of the people 
below and the extreme heat to taking their 
chances elsewhere.

THE EMPEROR'S INSPECTIONS.
     
     Notwithstanding the weather, Kaiser William 
continues his reviews and inspections of the 
troops. The autumn manœuvres are to be on 
an almost unexampled scale, so arranged 
as to test severely all of the many 
army improvements introduced since the
[?] death. For instance as