. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. t deed? The pilot of his people through the strife, With his strong purpose turning scorn to praise, Een at the close of battle reft of lifeAnd fair inheritance of quiet days. Defeat and triumph found him calm and just,He showed how clemency should temper power, And, dying, left to future times in trustThe memory of his brief victorious hour. Oermastered by the irony of fate, The last and greatest martyr of his cause; Slain like Achilles at the Scsean gate, He saw the end, and fixed the purer laws. May these endure and, as his
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. t deed? The pilot of his people through the strife, With his strong purpose turning scorn to praise, Een at the close of battle reft of lifeAnd fair inheritance of quiet days. Defeat and triumph found him calm and just,He showed how clemency should temper power, And, dying, left to future times in trustThe memory of his brief victorious hour. Oermastered by the irony of fate, The last and greatest martyr of his cause; Slain like Achilles at the Scsean gate, He saw the end, and fixed the purer laws. May these endure and, as his work, attestThe glory of his honest heart and hand— The simplest, and the bravest, and the best—The Moses and the Cromwell of his land. Too late the pioneers of modern spite,Awe-stricken by the universal gloom, See his name lustrous in Deaths sable night,And offer tardy tribute at his tomb. But we who have been with him all the while,Who knew his worth, and loved him long ago, Rejoice that in the circuit of our isle There is at last no room for Lincolns LINCOLN AND CABINETThe First Reading of the Emancipation by Frank B. left to right—-Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War; Salmon P. Chase,Secretary of the Treasury; President Lincoln; Gideon Welles, Secretary of theNavy; William H, Seward, Secretary of State; J. P. Usher, Secretary of theInterior; Montgomery Blair, Postmaster-General; Edward Bates, Attorney-General CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH, born inAlexandria, Virginia, March 8, 1813. Graduatedat the school of Divinity, Cambridge, Massa-chusetts, in 1835, but retired from the ministry in 1842to devote himself to art. He studied in Italy in 18-16-8,and lived and painted in 1853-63, and, returning toNew York, was elected a member of the NationalAcademy in 1864. He was a graceful writer of bothprose and verse. 206 THE POETS LINCOLN 207 LINCOLN BUT yesterday—the exulting nations shoutSwelled on the breeze of victory through ourstreets
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