. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. ich told us that wars wintry storm had fled,And spring was more than spring to us at last. Today the nations heart lies crushed and weak; Drooping and draped in black our banners stunned to cry revenge, we scarce may speak The grief that chokes all utterance through the is in all. With tears our eyes are dim, Yet strive through darkness to look to Him! No, not in vain he died—not all in vain, Our good, great President! This peoples handsAre linked together in one mighty chain Drawn tighter still in triple-wo
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. ich told us that wars wintry storm had fled,And spring was more than spring to us at last. Today the nations heart lies crushed and weak; Drooping and draped in black our banners stunned to cry revenge, we scarce may speak The grief that chokes all utterance through the is in all. With tears our eyes are dim, Yet strive through darkness to look to Him! No, not in vain he died—not all in vain, Our good, great President! This peoples handsAre linked together in one mighty chain Drawn tighter still in triple-woven bandsTo crush the fiends in human masks, whose might We suffer, oh, too long! No league, nor truceSave men with men! The devils we must fight With fire! God wills it in this deed. This useWe draw from the most impious murder done Since Calvary. Rise then, O Countrymen!Scatter these marsh-lights hopes of Union won Through pardoning clemency. Strike, strike again!Draw closer round the foe a girdling flame. We are stabbed wheneer we spare—strike in Godsname!. STATUE OF LINCOLNFairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Randolph Rogers,sculptor. Unveiled November 26, 1869 GEORGE HENRY BOKER, born in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania, on the 6th day of October, at Princeton in 1842, and afterwardstudied law. In the year 1847, after his return from anextended tour in Europe, he published The Lessons ofLife and Other Poems. He also produced a number ofplays which were successfully produced upon the stage,both in England and America. During the War of theRebellion he wrote a number of patriotic lyrics, col-lected and published in a volume under the title ofPoems of the War. He has also written other poemsand articles in prose which have received high the year 1871 he was appointed by PresidentGrant as our United States Minister to Turkey, butin 1875 was transferred to the more important Missionof Russia. 20S THE POETS LINCOLN 209 LINCOLN CROWN we our heroes wit
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