Excerpt from The Centennial School Singer, or Songs of Patriotism and Peace: For the Children of the American Union D the words of hope a long; The clouds were gathering o'er the sky, And doubt up. On the tu ture time, But neath op-pression's i ron heel; The foe -men came, and e'er the day Had passed, the conflict had been won; And. 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.