I SEE before me now, a traveling army halting; br Below, a fertile valley spread, with barns, and the orchards of br summer; br Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt in places, rising br high; br Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes, dingily br seen; br The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some away up on the br mountain; br The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-sized flickering; br And over all, the sky--the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, br breaking out, the eternal stars.