The title poem, meant to be sung to the tune of a Salvation Army hymn, imagines Booth leading his army of saved drunkards and outcasts up to the courthouse square of heaven. Around it are Lindsay’s elegy “The Eagle That Is Forgotten” for John Peter Altgeld and shorter poems of the prairie, the city and his gospel of beauty.
The 1913 collection that made Lindsay’s name, with the chanted, rhythmic verse he would make famous. Download the free EPUB.