Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE UNSUNG HOUR, by HERBERT KAUFMAN


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THE UNSUNG HOUR, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You glorify him as a hero, and you crown him
Last Line: When his lust burned his veins into cinder, and in passion, he spared her soul.
Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery


YOU glorify him as a hero, and you crown him with laurel and bay,
And of bronze do you set up a tablet, who has vanquished his foe in hot fray;
And you chisel his features in marble, and high do you lift him in fame,
But his deed of the mightiest courage, you pass by and never do name.

For the foeman he met on the war-field was never a peer to his might
And he fought him with weapon of temper, and he faced him in God's wholesome
light,
And the might of his tendons availed him, and the shrill lust to kill was in
air,
And he fought with a weaker against him, where the world could behold and see
fair.

But I know of a battle all dreadful, that he waged with his soul against hell,
In the blackness and drearness of midnight. And I crown him for this. I would
tell
How a woman surpassing all women, delivered herself to him, whole,
When his lust burned his veins into cinder, and in passion, he spared her soul.





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