Excerpt from The Nameless Hero: And Other PoemsThe Nameless HeroSad, O Missouri, sad as tolling knellThe tales of blood and death thy children tell.Belovèd land, my heart with grief is tornO'er ruthless wrongs by thee so nobly borne.The demon War has blown his fiery gale, Blasted thy uplands, blighted every vale.Where stood thy busy hamlet wolves may roam, And ruins where once rose the happy home.Fair were thy plains, sweet Marion, where befellA deed that makes the pitying bosom swell.Fair are thy streets. Palmyra, where was done -That deed so foul and dark a fiend might shun.Unrazed by bounding shot or sputtering brandErect thou stood'st o'er smouldering, fuming land.Though stilled thy flames, yet endless blazing firesForever burn in breasts of sons and sires.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.