The Vacant Chair and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Vacant Chair and Other Poems (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Stevenson Washburn and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Vacant Chair and Other Poems The Vacant Chair. We shall meet, but we shall miss him, There will be one vacant chair: We shall linger to caress him, when we breathe our evening prayer. When a year ago we gathered, Joy was in his mild blue eye; But a golden cord is severed, And our hopes in ruin lie. At our firesides, sad and lonely, Often will the bosom swell At remembrance of the story, - How our noble Willie fell; How he strove to bear our banner Through the thickest of the fight, And upheld our country's honor With the strenght of manhood's might. 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.