Excerpt from The Crimson Hand, and Other Poems The Crimson Hand. A Louisville Courier-Journal, during the winter of 1874, took notice of a single cornstalk, in some Western field, upon which grew five ears, blood-red, and clinging together in the exact shape of a human hand. In a modest Western village, Girdled by the prairies wide, Three bright children grew together, And were nurtured side by side. Two were strong, brave boys; the other, A fair girl, - so fair, I ween, All the flowers that flecked the prairies Might have claimed her as their queen. There they grew and played together, By no tie of kindred bound. Young McAlpine's Saxon forehead Sunny tresses softly crowned; While to Unez - dark hair sweeping Round a low, swart brow, remains From Castilian blood still leaping Hot and fervid through his veins, And his lustrous eyes surcharging With the fires of love or rage, Storm and strife mayhap betokened, Or a stain on life's fair page. 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. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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