To charge our bold array,
Where brave and ready Sherman's loss
Had wellnigh won the day.
Observing all from Orchard Knoll,
With confidence and trust,
The master-mind that planned the whole
Then calmly said "We must."
And, charging up the steep ascent,
Brave Sherman led the way;
The pine-trees by the cannons rent
Across his pathway lay.
The storm that raged on Tunnel Hill
Then crept along the right,
The hail that swept from out the dell
Was answered from the height.
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Undergraduate Literary Exercises in Sanders Theatre.