Paper back, photographic reprint of 1880 edition. 151 pages. D.L. Brill Publishing Co., Mobile, Alabama.


Confederate Catholic chaplain/poet Father Abram Ryan (1838-86), whose lyrics romanticized the Confederacy in much the same way that Thomas Moore's poems romanticized Ireland. Contains "The Conquered Banner," a cry for preserving the dignity of the fallen flag (and of the efforts) of the Southern Confederacy by ceasing to fly it (in then unimagined political causes): "Furl that Banner, for 'tis weary;/Round its staff 'tis drooping dreary;/Furl it, fold it, it is best:/For there's not a man to wave it,/And there's not a sword to save it,/And there's no one left to lave it/In the blood which heroes gave it;/And its foes now scorn and brave it;/Furl it, hide itlet it rest."