Pity the sorrowful : a poem, 1860-1875

This document includes two works by Maine poet and blacksmith Abner Warren Harmon. The first work, “Pity the Sorrowful,” a poem in eleven stanzas, details Harmon’s debilitating illness that left him bedridden for three years. The second work, "The Soldier’s Return," is a song meant to be sung to the melody of George F. Root’s popular Civil War song, “Just Before the Battle, Mother.”