Excerpt from Crown Our Heroes: And Other PoemsBring love's fairest offerings, with tears and with prayer, And gratefully, sacredly scatter them there.Crown our heroes, the soldiers, whose grandeur and power Saved our own dear Columbia in war's troubled hour When amid the fierce struggle each soul was a host.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.