| Item Description: | Herein are 136 patriotic ballads and lyrics chosen from four centuries of verse in English: poems of England's wars with France and of her conquests of Scotland, Ireland and all the empire; poems of the American Revolution (including all of "Yankee Doodle") and of our War Between the States from both sides; poems recalling farawy men and monuments, like Macaulay's story of Horatius' stand at the bridge, or Lord Byron's of Jehova scattering the Assyrians, or G.K. Chesterton's vivid recreation of the Battle of Lepanto. |
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