. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. edical experts on the New YorkState Board of Health. THE LINCOLN BOULDER O MIGHTY Boulder, wrought by Gods ownhand,Throughout all future ages thou shalt standA monument of honor to the braveWho yielded up their lives, their all, to saveOur glorious country, and to make it freeFrom bondsmens tears and lash of slavery. Securely welded to thy rugged breast,Through all the coming ages there shall restOur Lincolns tribute to a patriot band,The noblest ever penned by human hand. The storms of centuries may lash and beatThe granite f
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. edical experts on the New YorkState Board of Health. THE LINCOLN BOULDER O MIGHTY Boulder, wrought by Gods ownhand,Throughout all future ages thou shalt standA monument of honor to the braveWho yielded up their lives, their all, to saveOur glorious country, and to make it freeFrom bondsmens tears and lash of slavery. Securely welded to thy rugged breast,Through all the coming ages there shall restOur Lincolns tribute to a patriot band,The noblest ever penned by human hand. The storms of centuries may lash and beatThe granite face and bronze with hail and sleet;But futile all their fury. In a dayThe loyal sun will melt them all away. Equal in death our gallant heroes sleep In Southern trench, home grave, or ocean deep; THE POETS LINCOLN 245 Equal in glory, fadeless as the light The stars send down upon them through the night. O priceless heritage for us to keep Our heroes fame immortal while they sleep! O God still guide us with thy loving hand,Keep and protect our glorious BAS-RELIEF HEAD OF LINCOLNJames W. Tuft, Boston THE POETS LINCOLN 247 JAMES ARTHUR EDGERTON, born at Plants-ville, Ohio, January 30, 1869. Graduated at theNormal University, Lebanon, Ohio, in 1887. Oneyears post-graduate work, Marietta, Ohio, county and state papers several years; oneditorial staff of Denver News, 1899-1903; AmericanPress Association, New York, 1904; Watson s Magazine,1905. Editorial writer New York American, 1907;Secretary State Labor Bureau of Nebraska, 1895-9;received party vote for clerk United States House ofRepresentatives. Author, Poems, 1889; A BetterDay, 1890; Populist Hand-book for 1894; PopulistHand-book for Nebraska, 1895; Voices of the Morning,1898; Songs of the People, 1902; Glimpses of the Real,1903; In the Gardens of God, 1904. WHEN LINCOLN DIED WHEN Lincoln died a universal griefWent round the earth. Men loved him inthat North her leader lost, the South her fri
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