. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . awn by secret power,The waters break in music on the shore,And with a speechless yet a meaning \ to be heard but by the fortunate earAttuned to high and spiritual waters cry, behold, they cry in tender sympathy with anon with fresh and childlike glee,Or murmuring low as in loves fond embrace,Or like the prayers of saints about to die,Then thundering the warriors battle-shout;The markets hum, the gold of eloquence,The ever-wearying wrangle of the schools,And the vain babble of the idle
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . awn by secret power,The waters break in music on the shore,And with a speechless yet a meaning \ to be heard but by the fortunate earAttuned to high and spiritual waters cry, behold, they cry in tender sympathy with anon with fresh and childlike glee,Or murmuring low as in loves fond embrace,Or like the prayers of saints about to die,Then thundering the warriors battle-shout;The markets hum, the gold of eloquence,The ever-wearying wrangle of the schools,And the vain babble of the idle these I hear, repeated from the world,But underneath them all, in deeper strain,Binding the whole in smooth, unbroken rhythm,Is one low marvelous voice, as thunder clear, and sweet as heavenly pauses not, nor ever changes tone,But speaks unto the soul for evermoreIts one eternal prophecy of wondrous voice, O God! is surely thine;That selfsame voice, Eternal God I is XXXIX.—49-50. T. T. Miinger. 1. ANDREW JOHNSON. (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRADY. ) ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A HISTORY/ THE FOURTEENTH OF APRIL—THE FATE OF THE ASSASSINS—THE MOURNING PAGEANT. BY JOHN G. NICOLAY AND JOHN HAY, PRIVATE SECRETARIES TO THE PRESIDENT. iHE FOURTEENTH OF APRIL. general and profound thanksgiving. Peace, so strenuously fought for, so long sought and HE 14th of April was a day of prayed for, with prayers uttered and unutter- deep and tranquil happiness able, was at last near at hand, its dawn visible throughout the United States, on the reddening hills. The sermons all day It was Good Friday, observed were full of gladness; the Misereres turned of by a jjortion of the i>eoplc as an themselves to Te Deums. The country from of fasting and religious morning till evening was filled with a solemn meditation ; but even among the most devout joy; Init the date was not to lose its awful the great tidings of the preceding week significan
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