Dupont’s Round Fight (November, 1861)

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In time and measure perfect moves
 All Art whose aim is sure;
Evolving rhyme and stars divine
 Have rules, and they endure.

Nor less the Fleet that warred for Right,
 And, warring so, prevailed,
In geometric beauty curved,
 And in an orbit sailed.

The rebel at Port Royal felt
 The Unity overawe,
And rued the spell. A type was here,
 And victory of LAW.

© Arvind Krishna Mehrotra