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Miami County PoetGiven Praise.ONE OF HIS FIRST POEMSRepublisfaed — First Printed In Troy Times September 11, 1862—A Tribute.‘ In September, 1862, E. C. Harmon, the editor of the Troy Times, received aB callers at Ms office, two• iyoung men who bad walked fourr , Smiles from Casstown -to offer a poem for publication that bad- been written by the younger of the two boys. That boy was T. C. Harbaugh, now far famed as a poet of-merit and this first published poem- was • written when he was 13 years old and is hererepublished for the first time and istaken from the September llth, 1862, issue of the Troy Times.-wuiA m .uiduit ivi nn“A Song for the Times,”Come all ye sons of freedom And join our noble band;Come help to whip the’ labels,And drive them from our land.Kentucky, its again invaded-was the first newspaper to give local news in detail.Of T.-C. Harbaugh very little need be said,Mr. Harbaugh’s reputation as a writer is not confined to Miami county and we herewith publish an article from the Dayton Journal referring to the merit of Mr. Harbaugh’s poems.This -Miami valley has a soldier-poet, whose verses deserve a wider field of recognition. Poets of far less merit, possessing far less of true inspiration, have easily pushed themselves into fame. “Tom’ Harbaugh, modest and unassuming as he is, contents himself with the -contribution of. his genius to the Ephemeral'•’columns of the daily newspaper, where •his w’ork is only casually read and soon forgotten. ■'We venture to say that Mr. Har-haugh’s poem entitled “The Bivouac of the Blue,” is not excelled by any patriotic verse written in commemoration of the soldiers of the Union. It has sentiment, rythm, -pathos. It , belongs among the great tributes paid by comrade to comrade. It fairly sings wdth knowledge of nature and love of the heroic men.rHas any poet, in any land, ever voiced more tenderly, more beautifully, the devotion of the living to the dead, than in these lines ?“Aye, strew them o'er with lillies fair wdth violet and rose,■Bring -wreaths of love and beauty to the spot where they repose; May gives her fragile blossoms to the valiant and true,And Glory stands, a sentinel, before the camps of Blue;Coupon No 1. Save itHosiery at Clean=U|One lot of those fast black Ladies’' Jsold at 20 cents. 2 pairs for ......-s\• • 4 . . ’Children’s Hose in all sizes,- bestSpecial ............................Ladies’ 50 cent Lisle, in all colors ciai to clean -up ........ ........ .:.FIRST FLOOICLARK’S 0. I4-4 Union Carp 4-4 Best all wool Car 8-4 Printed LinoleunJUSTvEach sleeper won the guerdon fair of everlasting -fame,Where - in their face’s flashed of yore the.battles,lurid flame; Forget not one who slumbers in.the nation’s.camps today, But give to all wdth-.-gratitude the God-kissed bloom sof May.”r
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Leader Dispatch
Piqua, Ohio, US
Wed, Jun 23, 1909
Page 4
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Muskingum C.
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