Lines for the Day (International) assertion single work   poetry   "To raise a column o'er the dead,"
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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... 1868 Lines for the Day
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Notes

  • At head of title: 'Delivered at the Festival given by the surviving Officers and men of the Corcoran Legion, in Jones Wood, July 29, 1868, for the purpose for organising to build a Monument in Central Park [New York City] to the officers and Soldiers of the Legion who died on the field of Honour.'

    (The so-called 'Corcoran Legion' was raised in New York City in 1862 and largely comprised Irish immigrants.)

  • This poem is included in a longer article about a plan to raise a monument to the memory of the Irish Legion in New York's Central Park.

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