This book contains among other verses: “On Reading Omar Khayyam during an Anti-Saloon Campaign in Illinois”; “The Wizard Wind”; “The Eagle Forgotten,” a Memorial to John P. Altgeld; “The Knight in Disguise,” a Memorial to O. Henry; “The Rose and the Lotus”; “Michaelangelo”; “Titian”; “What the Hyena Said”; “What Grandpa Mouse Said”; “A Net to Snare the Moonlight”; “Springfield Magical”; “The Proud Farmer”; “The Illinois Village”; “The Building of Springfield.”
COMMENTS ON THE TITLE POEM:
“This poem, at once so glorious, so touching and poignant in its conception and expression ... is perhaps the most remarkable poem of a decade—one that defies imitation.”—Review of Reviews.
“A sweeping and penetrating vision that works with a naïve charm.... No American poet of to-day is more a people’s poet.”—Boston Transcript.
“One could hardly overpraise ‘General Booth.’”—New York Times.
“Something new in verse, spontaneous, passionate, unmindful of conventions in form and theme.”—The Living Age.
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