Excerpt from Conflict and Conquest: And Other Poems Most beautiful river bright ON your native hills sing, bird OF cheer the antidote the problem the bright belief thou shalt discern bless thy kind dominant victor always with thee A rose the ideal intuitions through grief building acknowledgment atschool warring our faith IN men MY native land prize thou thyself she placed the bitter sweet into the sunshine good bye, sweet stars. 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.