Pity the sorrowful : a poem, between 1860 and 1875

Pity the sorrowful : a poem, between 1860 and 1875

Soldier's return

Concerning his sickness, caused by lifting, which injured his spine, affecting his head and eyesight badly, confining him to his bed and a dark room for three years

Pity the Sorrowful, a poem. Dated between 1860 and 1875. This document includes two works by Maine poet and blacksmith Abner Warren Harmon. The first work, “Pity the Sorrowful,” a poem in eleven stanzas, details Harmon’s debilitating illness that left him bedridden for three years. The second work, "The Soldier’s Return," is a song meant to be sung to the melody of George F. Root’s popular Civil War song, “Just Before the Battle, Mother.”

Collection of the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Lexington, Massachusetts. USM 300.006

between 1860 and 1875

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English

A2018/029/025

Carl E. Wahlstrom ephemera collection.

1 item ; 24 x 15 cm.

Gift of Estate of Carl Wahlstrom