. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. field, Illinois THE POETS LINCOLN 83 JOHN JAMES PIATT was born in Indiana, March1, 1835. His earliest schooling was received atRising Sun, in Indiana. At the age of fourteen hewas set to learn the printing business in the office ofthe Ohio State Journal at Columbus, Ohio, for a briefperiod, and at the age of eighteen years first began towrite verses. His poems were chiefly on themes con-nected with his native West. SONNET IN 1862 STERN be the Pilot in the dreadful hourWhen a great nation, like a ship at seaWith the wroth break
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. field, Illinois THE POETS LINCOLN 83 JOHN JAMES PIATT was born in Indiana, March1, 1835. His earliest schooling was received atRising Sun, in Indiana. At the age of fourteen hewas set to learn the printing business in the office ofthe Ohio State Journal at Columbus, Ohio, for a briefperiod, and at the age of eighteen years first began towrite verses. His poems were chiefly on themes con-nected with his native West. SONNET IN 1862 STERN be the Pilot in the dreadful hourWhen a great nation, like a ship at seaWith the wroth breakers whitening at her lee,Feels her last shudder if her helmsman cower;A godlike manhood be his mighty dower!Such and so gifted, Lincoln, mayst thou beWith thy high wisdoms low simplicityAnd awful tenderness of voted our hot records then thy name shall stand On Times calm ledger out of passionate days—With the pure debt of gratitude begun, And only paid in never-ending praise—One of the many of a mighty land,Made by Gods providence the Anointed Qfay °))\A?<^<w f- e/ftua, £-irh<. iwf<«<. /u^^ ^ruc Jot. \alw&. -&C. OcZiA^i. /ft/ yG*. PRESIDENT LINCOLN LINCOLN once said: When any church will-rf inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification formembership, the Saviours condensed statementof the substance of both law and gospel, Thou shaltlove the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with allthy soul and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor asthyself, that church will I join with all my heart andall my^soul. 84 THE POETS LINCOLN 85 LINCOLN, SOLDIER OF CHRIST From Macmillans Magazine, England 1INCOLN! When men would name a manJust, unperturbed, magnanimous,Tried in the lowest seat of all,Tried in the chief seat of the house— Lincoln! When men would name a manWho wrought the great work of his age, Who fought, and fought the noisiest fight,And marshalled it from stage to stage. Victorious, out of dusk and dark,And into dawn and on till day, Mos
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