. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. Howard Uni-versities, and since 1886 connected with ColumbiaUniversity where he is Professor of Graphics. Authorof several volumes of poems which are published byHoughton-Mifflin Company, Boston. Professor Sherman married, November 16, 1887,Juliet Durand, daughter of Rev. Cyrus Bervic andSarah Elizabeth (Merserveau) Durand. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts andLetters. ON A BRONZE MEDAL OF LINCOLN THIS bronze our Lincolns noble head doth bear,Behold the strength and splendor of that face,So homely-beautiful, wit
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. Howard Uni-versities, and since 1886 connected with ColumbiaUniversity where he is Professor of Graphics. Authorof several volumes of poems which are published byHoughton-Mifflin Company, Boston. Professor Sherman married, November 16, 1887,Juliet Durand, daughter of Rev. Cyrus Bervic andSarah Elizabeth (Merserveau) Durand. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts andLetters. ON A BRONZE MEDAL OF LINCOLN THIS bronze our Lincolns noble head doth bear,Behold the strength and splendor of that face,So homely-beautiful, with just a traceOf humor lightening its look of care,With bronze indeed his memory doth share,This martyr who found freedom for a Race;Both shall endure beyond the time and placeThat knew them first, and brighter grow with must be the genius here that wroughtThese features of the great American Whose fame lends so much glory to our past—Happy to know the inspiration caughtFrom this most human and heroic man Lives here to honor him while Art shall MARBLE HEAD OF LINCOLNIn Statuary Hall, Capitol in Washington, Gutzon Borglum, sculptor THE POETS LINCOLN 241 ELLA WHEELER [WILCOX] was born in Johns-town Centre, Wisconsin, in 1845. Was educatedat the public schools at Windsor and at the Uni-versity of Wisconsin. In 1884 she married Robert Contributed articles for newspapers at anearly age and also wrote and published a number ofbooks of poems. THE GLORY THAT SLUMBERED IN THEGRANITE ROCK A GRANITE rock on the mountain sideGazed on the world and was satisfied;It watched the centuries come and go—•It welcomed the sunlight, and loved the snow,It grieved when the forest was forced to fall,But smiled when the steeples rose, white and tall,In the valley below it, and thrilled to hearThe voice of the great town roaring near. When the mountain stream from its idle playWas caught by the mill-wheel, and borne awayAnd trained to labor, the gray rock mused:Tree and
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