Pity the sorrowful : a poem, between 1860 and 1875
Title (alt.):
Soldier's return
Description:
Pity the Sorrowful, a poem. Dated between 1860 and 1875. This document includes two works by Maine poet and blacksmith Abner Warren Harmon. The first work, “Pity the Sorrowful,” a poem in eleven stanzas, details Harmon’s debilitating illness that left him bedridden for three years. The second work, "The Soldier’s Return," is a song meant to be sung to the melody of George F. Root’s popular Civil War song, “Just Before the Battle, Mother.”
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