. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. icalSociety, The Jefferson Association, Grand Army of theRepublic and Sons of the American Revolution. Direc-tor of Lincoln Library at Springfield, Illinois, for tenyears. Member of the First Congregational Church ofthat city. This sonnet was written by Mr. Clendenin, in Phila-delphia, February 22, 1861, after witnessing Lincolnhoist the flag over Independence Hall. LINCOLN CALLED TO THE PRESIDENCY HARK to the sound that speedeth oer the land!Behold the sword in fratricidal hand!Tis duty calls thee, Lincoln, and thy trustDeman
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. icalSociety, The Jefferson Association, Grand Army of theRepublic and Sons of the American Revolution. Direc-tor of Lincoln Library at Springfield, Illinois, for tenyears. Member of the First Congregational Church ofthat city. This sonnet was written by Mr. Clendenin, in Phila-delphia, February 22, 1861, after witnessing Lincolnhoist the flag over Independence Hall. LINCOLN CALLED TO THE PRESIDENCY HARK to the sound that speedeth oer the land!Behold the sword in fratricidal hand!Tis duty calls thee, Lincoln, and thy trustDemands that all thy acts be wise and idle task to thee has been assigned,But work thats worthy of a giant mind—And on the issue hangs the nations fame THE POETS LINCOLN 71 As a free people who deserve the , walk thou in the way the fathers trod;Be true to freedom, country, and to God;Then truth will triumph, treason be undone,And thou be hailed the second first, the Father of his country—thou,Its Saviour. Bind the laurel on thy LINCOLN IN 1858From a photograph by S. M. Fassett of Chicago 72 THE POETS LINCOLN AN act of Congress July 9, 1790, established thei. District of Columbia as the National Capital,and provided that prior to the first Monday ofDecember, 1800, the Commissioners should have fin-ished a suitable building for the sessions of site of the Capitol was included in LEnfants planfor the city. The cornerstone was laid September 18,1793, with Masonic rites, George Washington wings of the central building were completed in1811, and were partially burned by the British, in entire central building was finished in 1827. Thecornerstone of the extension was laid by PresidentFillmore, July 4, 1851. The extensions were first oc-cupied by Congress 1857 and 1859. Up to that time theSenate Chamber was the present Supreme Court Room,and the Hall of Representatives was the presentNational Statuary Hall. The
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