. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. 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 verdure and stream are usedBy man, the master, but I remainFriend of the Mountain, and Star, and Plain;Unchanged forever, by Gods decree,While passing centuries bow to me! Then, all unwarned, with a heavy shock Down from the mountain was wrenched the rock. Bruised and battered and broken in heart, He was carried away to a common mart. Wrecked and ruined in peace and pride,
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. 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 verdure and stream are usedBy man, the master, but I remainFriend of the Mountain, and Star, and Plain;Unchanged forever, by Gods decree,While passing centuries bow to me! Then, all unwarned, with a heavy shock Down from the mountain was wrenched the rock. Bruised and battered and broken in heart, He was carried away to a common mart. Wrecked and ruined in peace and pride, Oh, God is cruel! the granite cried; 242 THE POETS LINCOLN Comrade of Mountain, of Star the friend—By all deserted—how sad my end! A dreaming sculptor, in passing by,Gazed on the granite with thoughtful eye;Then, stirred with a purpose supreme and grand,He bade his dream in the rock expand—And lo! from the broken and shapeless mass,That grieved and doubted, it came to passThat a glorious statue, of infinite worth—A statue of Lincoln—adorned the THE LINCOLN BOULDERAt Nyack, N. Y. THIS boulder had been for two hundred and fiftyyears a landmark near the Western shore of theHudson River, opposite Upper Nyack. Theschool children of Nyack contributed the funds toto remove it from its ancient bed and place it in frontof the Nyack Carnegie Library, where it now standsand probably will stand for thousands of years tocome, a monument to the memory of Abraham boulder contains the Gettysburg address andwas dedicated June 13, 1908. 243 244 THE POETS LINCOLN LOUIS BRADFORD COUCH, born at East Lee,j Massachusetts, October 1, 1851. Son of BradfordMilton and Lucy L. Couch. Educated in the pub-lic schools of Northampton, Massachusetts. Began thestudy of medicine in 1871, graduating with honors fromthe New York Homeopathic Medical College, March4, 1874, being awarded the Allen gold medal for the bestoriginal investigations in medicine; he was graduatedfrom the New Y
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