. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. en-permitted woe,I go, to take the helm of State,While loud the waves of faction roar,And by His aid, supremely great,Upon whose will all tempests wait, I hope to steer the bark to since the days when WashingtonTo battle led our patriots on,Have clouds so dark above us met,Have dangers dire so close he had never saved the landBy deeds in human wisdom planned,But that with Christian faith he soughtGuidance and blessing, where he him, I seek for aid divine,His faith, his hope, his trust, are
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. en-permitted woe,I go, to take the helm of State,While loud the waves of faction roar,And by His aid, supremely great,Upon whose will all tempests wait, I hope to steer the bark to since the days when WashingtonTo battle led our patriots on,Have clouds so dark above us met,Have dangers dire so close he had never saved the landBy deeds in human wisdom planned,But that with Christian faith he soughtGuidance and blessing, where he him, I seek for aid divine,His faith, his hope, his trust, are for me, friends, that God may make My judgment clear, my duty plain;For if the Lord no wardship take, The watchmen mount the towers in vain. He ceased; and many a manly breast Panted with strong emotions swell,And many a lip the sob suppressed, And tears from manly eyelids hats came off, and heads were bowed, As Lincoln slowly moved away;And then, heart-spoken, from the crowd,In accents earnest, clear, and loud, Came one brief sentence, We will pray!. PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND HIS SECRETARIES, JOHN G. NICOLAY AND JOHN HAY Photographed at Springfield, Illinois, in 1861 68 THE POETS LINCOLN ON the 22nd of February, 1861, Washingtons birth-day, on his journey to Washington, to assume thePresidency, Mr. Lincoln raised a new flag over Inde-pendence Hall, then went inside and spoke as follows:— I am filled with deep emotion at finding myselfstanding in this place, where were collected togetherthe wisdom, the patriotism, the devotion to principlefrom which sprang the institutions under which welive. You have kindly suggested to me that in my handsis the task of restoring peace to our distracted can say in return, sirs, that all the political sentimentsI entertain have been drawn, so far as I have been ableto draw them, from the sentiments which originatedin and were given to the world from this hall. I havenever had a feeling, politically, that did not springfrom
Size: 1496px × 1670px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidpoetslincoln, bookyear1915
