. American war ballads and lyrics: a collection of the songs and ballads of the colonial wars, the revolution, the war of 1812-15, the war with Mexico, and the civil war . ll the poems, andthese are the characteristics that distinguish a virile racewhich encounters difficulty wdth stalwart courage andconfronts danger with an unruffled mind. It is the poe-try of strength and manly self-reliance. There is not aplaint of weakness anywhere in it. It is inspired frombeginning to end by a high and unfaltering faith in thetruth of the doctrines of human liberty that underlie ourentire history and con
. American war ballads and lyrics: a collection of the songs and ballads of the colonial wars, the revolution, the war of 1812-15, the war with Mexico, and the civil war . ll the poems, andthese are the characteristics that distinguish a virile racewhich encounters difficulty wdth stalwart courage andconfronts danger with an unruffled mind. It is the poe-try of strength and manly self-reliance. There is not aplaint of weakness anywhere in it. It is inspired frombeginning to end by a high and unfaltering faith in thetruth of the doctrines of human liberty that underlie ourentire history and constitute the vital principle of ourinstitutions, Ipretace aiiD UntroDuctiou The ruder poems are a trifle truculent now and thenperhaps, but some little truculence may be allowed as apoetic license to the poet who sings of his countrymensprowess in just wars. In preparing this little collectionthe editor has had occasion to read anew the entire bodyof American war poetry of the ballad and lyric class, andhe ends the examination with a feeling of intense satis-faction in the knowdedge that there is not an unmanly ora cowardly line in it and scarcely an ungenerous
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