An Army Corps on the March

WITH its cloud of skirmishers in advance,
With now the sound of a single shot, snapping like a whip, and now
　　　an irregular volley,
The swarming ranks press on and on, the dense brigades press
　　　on;
Glittering dimly, toiling under the sun--the dust-cover’d men,
In columns rise and fall to the undulations of the ground, 5
With artillery interspers’d--the wheels rumble, the horses sweat,
As the army corps advances.