Excerpt from Courage! After rejections and discouragements on account of his health, Mansfield succeeded in joining the American army, and as a private in the Aviation Signal Corps died at nineteen. In preparing this volume from the scattered material he left, I have had the help of his mother and of two poets, his friend, Anna Hempstead Branch, and his teacher, Haniel Long; and, as near ly as we could, we have selected and arranged the poems as if he were doing it and we only advising. 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.

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