. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. FACADE OF PUBLIC VAULT Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois, in which the body of Lincoln was placed, May 4, 1S65 THE POETS LINCOLN 181 JAMES MACKAY, born in New York, April 8, of The Economy of Happiness, The Politicsof Utility, and of various lectures on ScientificEthics, etc. THE CENOTAPH OF LINCOLN 4ND so they buried Lincoln? Strange and vain/-% Has any creature thought of Lincoln hidIn any vault neath any coffin lid,In all the years since that wild spring of pain?Tis false—he never in the grave hath lain.
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. FACADE OF PUBLIC VAULT Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois, in which the body of Lincoln was placed, May 4, 1S65 THE POETS LINCOLN 181 JAMES MACKAY, born in New York, April 8, of The Economy of Happiness, The Politicsof Utility, and of various lectures on ScientificEthics, etc. THE CENOTAPH OF LINCOLN 4ND so they buried Lincoln? Strange and vain/-% Has any creature thought of Lincoln hidIn any vault neath any coffin lid,In all the years since that wild spring of pain?Tis false—he never in the grave hath could not bury him although you slidUpon his clay the Cheops Pyramid,Or heaped it with the Rocky Mountain slew themselves;—they but set Lincoln all the earth his great heart beats as strong,Shall beat while pulses throb to chivalry,And burn with hate of tyranny and will may find him, anywhereSave in the tomb. Not there—he is not LINCOLN MONUMENTSpringfield, Illinois, Larken G. Mead, Architect A MOVEMENT was started shortly after the burialof Lincoln to raise funds sufficient to build amonument over his grave. Contributions weremade by various States and societies, and about sixtythousand Sunday-school scholars contributed the sumof eighteen thousand dollars. Ground was brokenon the 9th of September, 1869, and the monument wasdedicated on the loth of October, 1874, at a total costof two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. 182 THE POETS LINCOLN 183 JAMES JUDSON LORD, born at Berwick, Maine,in 1821. He had the advantage of an excellentearly education followed by years of his preparatory studies at Cambridge he metLongfellow, who loaned him books from his own a time he studied art under prominent masters,but his health failing, after a time of forced leisure hewent into the mercantile business in Boston, whichvocation he afterward followed. In 1851 he went toIllinois; finally, after h
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