Liberty's Ordeal (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Liberty's Ordeal I have written this poem because of my belief that, in time like these, an American citizen should bring all his faculties to the support of his Government. The rule that, as Poetry is a Fine Art, a poem must be an end unto itself, and be distinguished from an oration in having no outward end, I have ventured to disregard. My aim has been precisely the same that I should have maintained had I been composing an oration. Indeed, each of the two parts was written with a view to its public recitation. This, together with the fact that Part I. was completed before the occurrence of the events related in Part IL, must account for the unsymmetrical arrangement of topics. The poem, as a mere work of Art - as an end instead of a means - could be greatly improved in point of symmetry, with little labor. But I have thought it best, upon the whole, to let it stand in its original form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.