{"id":"01KG8AJJNP16MN6G7EQBJSBQMR","cid":"bafkreibkcejsks27db7njg3chmj3eq74bdburzjsk34rhoec6rnozkxuae","type":"segment","properties":{"description":"# Apathy and Enthusiasm.\n## Overview - What this is (type, form, dates, scope)\nThis is a segment of text, specifically a poem titled \"Apathy and Enthusiasm.\" It is part of the larger collection [Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.](arke:01KG8AJ6FNQ0XKWBY52P8DRPC9) The poem is extracted from the file [battle_pieces_and_aspects_of_the_war.txt](arke:01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8) and was likely written around 1860-1. The segment spans lines 194-251 of the source file.\n\n## Context - Background and provenance from related entities\n\"Apathy and Enthusiasm.\" is one of many poems contained within the poetry collection [Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.](arke:01KG8AJ6FNQ0XKWBY52P8DRPC9), which is part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. The poem follows \"The Conflict of Convictions.\"(arke:01KG8AJJNMMJ0P29XDS96AJ2SK) and precedes \"The March into Virginia, Ending in the First Manassas.\"(arke:01KG8AJJNTE73YES319BF4WAXQ). The text was extracted by the structure-extraction-lambda.\n\n## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details\nThe poem is divided into two sections, marked I and II. Section I describes a bleak winter landscape and the despair of a nation. Section II depicts the coming of spring, the \"rising of the People,\" and the enthusiasm of the young, contrasted with the foreboding of the elders who recall the proverb, \"Grief to every graybeard / When young Indians lead the war.\" The poem reflects on the American Civil War, contrasting the initial apathy with the subsequent enthusiasm and the potential for tragic outcomes.\n","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:22.030Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"Apathy and Enthusiasm.","end_line":251,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:35.910Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Apathy and Enthusiasm.","source_file":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","start_line":194,"text":"Apathy and Enthusiasm.\r\n(1860-1.)\r\n\r\n\r\nI\r\n\r\nO the clammy cold November,\r\n  And the winter white and dead,\r\nAnd the terror dumb with stupor,\r\n  And the sky a sheet of lead;\r\nAnd events that came resounding\r\n  With the cry that _All was lost_,\r\nLike the thunder-cracks of massy ice\r\n  In intensity of frost--\r\nBursting one upon another\r\n  Through the horror of the calm.\r\n  The paralysis of arm\r\nIn the anguish of the heart;\r\nAnd the hollowness and dearth.\r\n  The appealings of the mother\r\n  To brother and to brother\r\nNot in hatred so to part--\r\nAnd the fissure in the hearth\r\n  Growing momently more wide.\r\nThen the glances ’tween the Fates,\r\n  And the doubt on every side,\r\nAnd the patience under gloom\r\nIn the stoniness that waits\r\nThe finality of doom.\r\n\r\n\r\nII\r\n\r\nSo the winter died despairing,\r\n  And the weary weeks of Lent;\r\nAnd the ice-bound rivers melted,\r\n  And the tomb of Faith was rent.\r\nO, the rising of the People\r\n  Came with springing of the grass,\r\nThey rebounded from dejection\r\n  And Easter came to pass.\r\nAnd the young were all elation\r\n  Hearing Sumter’s cannon roar,\r\nAnd they thought how tame the Nation\r\n  In the age that went before.\r\nAnd Michael seemed gigantical,\r\n  The Arch-fiend but a dwarf;\r\nAnd at the towers of Erebus\r\n  Our striplings flung the scoff.\r\nBut the elders with foreboding\r\n  Mourned the days forever o’er,\r\nAnd re called the forest proverb,\r\n  The Iroquois’ old saw:\r\n_Grief to every graybeard\r\n  When young Indians lead the war._\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Apathy and Enthusiasm."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJ6FNQ0XKWBY52P8DRPC9","peer_type":"poetry_collection","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AJJNMMJ0P29XDS96AJ2SK","peer_type":"segment","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AJJNTE73YES319BF4WAXQ","peer_type":"segment","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:36.118Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:22.329Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}