. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. t flowed at Chickamauga, at Bull Run,Vicksburg, Antietam, and the gory woodAnd Wilderness of ravenous Deaths that stoodRound Richmond like a ghostly garrison:Your blood for those who won,For those who lost, your tears!For you the strife, the fears,For us, the sun!For you the lashing winds and the beating rain in your eyes,For us the ascending stars and the wide, unboundedskies. Oh, man of storms! Patient and kingly soul! Oh, wise physician of a wasted land! A nation felt upon its heart your hand,And lo, your hand hath made the
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. t flowed at Chickamauga, at Bull Run,Vicksburg, Antietam, and the gory woodAnd Wilderness of ravenous Deaths that stoodRound Richmond like a ghostly garrison:Your blood for those who won,For those who lost, your tears!For you the strife, the fears,For us, the sun!For you the lashing winds and the beating rain in your eyes,For us the ascending stars and the wide, unboundedskies. Oh, man of storms! Patient and kingly soul! Oh, wise physician of a wasted land! A nation felt upon its heart your hand,And lo, your hand hath made the shattered, whole, THE POETS LINCOLN 111 With iron clasp your hand hath held the wheelOf the lurching ship, on tempest waves no keel Hath ever sailed. A grim smile held your lips when strong men quailed. You strove alone with chaos and prevailed;You felt the grinding shock and did not reel,And, ah, your hand that cut the battles pathWide with the devastating plague of wrath, Your bleeding hand, gentle with pity yet, Did not forgetTo bless, to succor, and to PRESIDENT LINCOLNPhotograph by Alexander Gardner, Washington, D. C, 1SG4 THE POETS LINCOLN 113 WILBUR DICK NESBIT was born at Xenia,Ohio, September 16, 1871. Educated in thepublic schools at Cedarville, Ohio. Was printerand reporter on various Ohio and Indiana papers until1898; verse writer and paragrapher Baltimore American,1899-1902; since that year writer of verse and humorChicago Evening Post and other newspapers, con-tributor of stories and poems to magazines and periodi-cals. Author of Little Henrys Slate, 1903; The Trail toBoyland and Other Poems, 1904; An Alphabet of His-tory, 1905; The Gentleman Ragman, 1906; A Book ofPoems, 1906; The Land of Make-Believe and OtherChristmas Poems, 1907; A Friend or Two, 1908; TheLoving Cup (compilation), 1909; The Old, Old Wish,1911; My Company of Friends, 1911; If the Heart beGlad, 1911; co-author with Otto Hauerbach of TheGirl of My Dreams, a musical comedy, 1910. THE MAN L
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