. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . l£::/ THE MONUMENT AT a photograph taken by J. A. W. Pittman for J. C Power- AT LINCOLN S HOME 207 With ceaseless pantings after liberty, One breath of which would make even RussiafairAnd blow sweet summer through the exiles cave,And set the exile free;For which I pray, here, in the open airOf Freedoms morningtide, by Lincolns grave. And he was a rebel soldier ! ex-claimed Roger. You would nt thinkso from that, would you ? Many things happen differentlyfrom what one would thi
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . l£::/ THE MONUMENT AT a photograph taken by J. A. W. Pittman for J. C Power- AT LINCOLN S HOME 207 With ceaseless pantings after liberty, One breath of which would make even RussiafairAnd blow sweet summer through the exiles cave,And set the exile free;For which I pray, here, in the open airOf Freedoms morningtide, by Lincolns grave. And he was a rebel soldier ! ex-claimed Roger. You would nt thinkso from that, would you ? Many things happen differentlyfrom what one would think, Roger,Uncle Tom replied. The man wholies within this crypt was the bestfriend the South ever had, and thetime will surely come when her peoplewill build statues to honor him with aneven deeper reverence than they giveto the heroes and leaders of that LostCause which they can never forget,but for which now they would not wishsuccess. No man loved the Southernpeople more than Abraham Lincoln. He loved all alike, because they wereAmericans. As Mr. Thompson, from whose poem I just quoted, says :. LINCOLNS the Keyes Lincoln Memorial Collection, Chicago. He was the North, the South, the East, the West, The thrall, the master, all of us in one. There was no section that he held the best; His love shone on impartial as the sun. No nobler American, no nobler man ever lived, boys and girls, than he be-fore whose honored grave we stand — Abraham Lincoln, the American. Still sobered, and silent, they turned at last from the crypt and spent abrief season in the memorial chamber, where they seemed especially impressedby the fitting arrangement of three commemorative busts — Lincoln be-tween two other great and historic martyrs, Coligny and William the Silent. Then they rode back to town ; they visited once more the plain, homelybrown house that had been the home of Lincoln, and, soon after, left forChicago deeply impressed by all that they had seen, but especially with
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