. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . AT LINCOLN S HOME 20/. With ceaseless pantings after liberty, One breath of which would make even Russia fairAnd blow sweet summer through the exiles cave, And set the exile free;For which I pray, here, in the open airOf Freedoms morningtide, by Lincolns grave. And he was a rebel soldier! ex-claimed Ro^er. You would nt think O so from that, would you ? Many things happen differentlyfrom \vhat one would think, Roger,Uncle Tom replied. The man w<holies within this crypt was the bestfriend the
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . AT LINCOLN S HOME 20/. With ceaseless pantings after liberty, One breath of which would make even Russia fairAnd blow sweet summer through the exiles cave, And set the exile free;For which I pray, here, in the open airOf Freedoms morningtide, by Lincolns grave. And he was a rebel soldier! ex-claimed Ro^er. You would nt think O so from that, would you ? Many things happen differentlyfrom \vhat one would think, Roger,Uncle Tom replied. The man w<holies within this crypt was the bestfriend the South ever had, and thetime will surely come when her peoplewill build statues to honor him with aneven deeper reverence than they giveto the heroes and leaders of that LostCause which they can never forget,but for which now they w^oulcl not wishsuccess. No man loved the Southernpeople more than Abraham Lincoln. He loved all alike, because they wereAmericans. As Mr. Thompson, from whose poem I just quoted, says : He was the North, the South, the East, the West, The thrall, the master, all of us in was no sec
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