Excerpt from Oration in Honor of Col. William Prescott: Delivered in Boston, 14 October, 1895 Ah, dear-spent flasks, your store And great deeds, that day done, Fails at the worst World-wide grew known; See, o'er the bastion's verge When victory was but shame. 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.