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Excerpt from Songs of Toil and Triumph
Farmers' Advocate, Chicago. The editor of some Wiscon sin paper (whose name I have forgotten, if I ever knew) clipped it from the Farmers' Advocate for his own col umns; but supposing that there was a misprint in the signature, changed the m therein to a w, and thus the name of Bulwer became attached to the poem. An immense accession of popularity immediately fol lowed. Copies of papers containing it - credited to Bul wer - have been sent me from nearly every State in the Union, and from England, Scotland, and Ireland; it is to be found in orthodox and spiritual hymn and song books, in at least one school reader in wide use, and in a score of bound volumes of selections; it has been quoted from in speeches in the Legislatures of several States, and several times in the Congress of the United States; On the last day of January, 1880, I had the pleasure of sitting in the Strangers' Gallery of the House of Representatives, in Washington, D. C., and hearing the Hon. Mr. Cofiroth, Member of Congress from Penn sylvania, in his oration on the death of Hon. Rush Clark, Member of Congress from Iowa, quote a portion of this poem, which thus became embalmed (credited to Bulwer, as usual) in the Congressional Record (see 46th Cong., 2d Sess., Part 1, p. Every reader can decide for him self whether this wide-spread popularity has its basis in the merits of the poem or in the celebrity of its supposed author. 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.
