Abraham Lincoln . le laid unfading flow-ers on his bier. In the worlds valhalla are the statues of those who have donegreat things for their fellow-men. Pericles, builder of the Parthenon,w^as willing to pay for its construction if but his name alone could besculptured upon the enduring marble. Abraham Lincolns Parthenonw^as his country. Not his own name, but the Constitution and theUnion was the only legend he desired to see inscribed upon the —patrician, dictator—though holding the plough and usingthe spade on his glebe, had little in common with the people. Abra- APOTHEOS
Abraham Lincoln . le laid unfading flow-ers on his bier. In the worlds valhalla are the statues of those who have donegreat things for their fellow-men. Pericles, builder of the Parthenon,w^as willing to pay for its construction if but his name alone could besculptured upon the enduring marble. Abraham Lincolns Parthenonw^as his country. Not his own name, but the Constitution and theUnion was the only legend he desired to see inscribed upon the —patrician, dictator—though holding the plough and usingthe spade on his glebe, had little in common with the people. Abra- APOTHEOSIS. 533 ham Lincoln—boatman, ploughman, President -gave his sympathies toall men, irrespective of race or condition. Where shall be found hiscompeer in the battalion of the Christian era ? Not Alfred the Great,nor Richard the Lion-hearted—none of Englands kings; neither Marl-l)orough, Cromwell, nor Wellington; not Frederick the Great of Ger-many ; neither Gustavus Adolphus, William the Silent, Henry of Na-. STATLJi. BY ST. GAUDENS, LI^COLiJS PAUK, ClllCAUO. 534 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. varre, Napoleon Bonaparte, nor George Washington. Not with thesemay Abraham Lincoln be compared. Nature gave not to them as tohim such ability to foresee, provide, and execute, such quality of states-manship and manhood, such combination of greatness and none of them has been given such affectionate remembrance as tohim. Washington will ever be the father, Lincoln the savior, of ourcountry. The inspiration of his life was the song of the heavenly hostto the shepherds of Bethlehem, Peace on earth, good-will to man. The millions whom Abraham Lincoln delivered from slavery willever liken him to Moses, the deliverer of Israel. Only in part are theyto be compared. Humble alike their birth, but the childhood of onewas passed in the luxurious court of Pharaoh, that of the other amidthe poverty of a frontier cabin. The learned of Egypts realm revealedthe vfisdom of the ages to the you
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