. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. unted to the peoples throne,Asked for your prayers, and joined in them his knew the man. I see him, as he standsWith gifts of mercy in his outstretched hands;A kindly light within his gentle eyes,Sad as the toil in which his heart grew wise;His lips half parted with the constant smileThat kindled truth, but foiled the deepest guile;His head bent forward, and his willing earDivinely patient right and wrong to hear:Great in his goodness, humble in his state,Firm in his purpose, yet not passionate,He led his people with a t
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. unted to the peoples throne,Asked for your prayers, and joined in them his knew the man. I see him, as he standsWith gifts of mercy in his outstretched hands;A kindly light within his gentle eyes,Sad as the toil in which his heart grew wise;His lips half parted with the constant smileThat kindled truth, but foiled the deepest guile;His head bent forward, and his willing earDivinely patient right and wrong to hear:Great in his goodness, humble in his state,Firm in his purpose, yet not passionate,He led his people with a tender hand,And won by love a sway beyond by lot to mitigate a timeFrenzied with rage, unscrupulous with crime,He bore his mission with so meek a heartThat Heaven itself took up his peoples part;And when he faltered, helped him ere he fell,Eking his efforts out by king this man, by grace of Gods intent;No, something better, freeman,—President!A nature modeled on a higher plan,Lord of himself, an inborn gentleman! 210 THE POETS LINCOLN. ABRAHAM LINCOLNPhoto by Brady, 1864 PHOEBE CARY was born near Cincinnati, Ohio,September 24,1824. Her advantages for educationwere somewhat better than those of her sister Alice,whose almost inseparable companion she became atan early age. They were quite different, however,in temperament, in person and in mental began to write verse at the age of seventeenyears, and one of her earliest poems, Nearer Home,beginning with One sweetly solemn thought, won hera world-wide reputation. In the joint housekeeping inNew York she took from choice (Alice being for manyyears an invalid) the larger share of duties upon herself,and hence found little opportunity for literary work. THE POETS LINCOLN 211 In society, however, she was brilliant, but at all timeskindly. She wrote a touching tribute to her sistersmemory, published in the Ladies Repository a few daysbefore her own death, which occurred at Newport, R. I.
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