. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. e of its centurys , stream of the prairies, Placidly westward that in whose city of silence Calm he has sought his our Washingtons riverSunrise beams rosy and fair; THE POETS LINCOLN 187 Sunset on Sangamon fairer,—Father and martyr lies there. Break into blossom, O prairie! Snowy and golden and red;Peers of the Palestine lilies Heap for your Glorious Dead!Roses as fair as of Sharon, Branches as stately as palm,Odors as rich as the spices— Cassia and aloes and balm—Mary the loved and Salome,
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. e of its centurys , stream of the prairies, Placidly westward that in whose city of silence Calm he has sought his our Washingtons riverSunrise beams rosy and fair; THE POETS LINCOLN 187 Sunset on Sangamon fairer,—Father and martyr lies there. Break into blossom, O prairie! Snowy and golden and red;Peers of the Palestine lilies Heap for your Glorious Dead!Roses as fair as of Sharon, Branches as stately as palm,Odors as rich as the spices— Cassia and aloes and balm—Mary the loved and Salome, All with a gracious accord,Ere the first glow of the morning Brought to the tomb of the Lord. Not for thy sheaves nor savannas Crown we thee, proud Illinois!Here in his grave is thy grandeur; Born of his sorrow thy the tomb by Mount Zion, Hewn for the Lord, do we holdDearer than his in thy prairies, Girdled with harvests of gold!Still for the world through the ages Wreathing with glory his brow,He shall be Libertys Saviour; Freedoms Jerusalem thou!. STATUE OF LINCOLNIn Lincoln Park, Washington, D. C. Thomas Ball, sculptor. THE first contribution of five dollars for the statuein Lincoln Park, Washington, D. C, was madeby a colored woman named Charlotte Scott, ofMarietta, Ohio, the morning after the assassinationof President Lincoln, and the entire cost of said monu-ment, amounting to $17,000, was paid by subscriptionsof colored people. It was unveiled April 14, 1876. 1SS THE POETS LINCOLN 189 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, born in Cambridge,Massachusetts, February 22, 1819. He receivedhis degree in 1838, at Harvard, and his first produc-tion was a class poem which was delivered on that was successor of Professor Longfellow in the chairof Modern Languages at Harvard College. In 1877 hewas appointed by President Hayes to the SpanishMission, from which he was transferred in 1880 to theCourt of St. James. A long list of poetical works havebeen published to his credit.
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