. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. s countrys—not his own;He had no wish but for the weak,Nor for himself could think or feel, But as a laborer for her throne. Her flag upon the heights of power—Stainless and unassayed to place,To this one end his earnest face Was bent through every burdened hour. But done the battle—won the strife;When torches light his vaulted tomb,Broad gems flash out and crowns illume The clav-cold brow undecked in life. THE POETS LINCOLN 217 O, loved and lost! Thy patient toilHad robed our cause in victorys light;Our country stood redeemed
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. s countrys—not his own;He had no wish but for the weak,Nor for himself could think or feel, But as a laborer for her throne. Her flag upon the heights of power—Stainless and unassayed to place,To this one end his earnest face Was bent through every burdened hour. But done the battle—won the strife;When torches light his vaulted tomb,Broad gems flash out and crowns illume The clav-cold brow undecked in life. THE POETS LINCOLN 217 O, loved and lost! Thy patient toilHad robed our cause in victorys light;Our country stood redeemed and bright, With not a slave on all her soil. Mid peals of bells and cannons bark,And shouting streets with flags abloom,Sped the shrill arrow of thy doom, And, in an instant, all was dark! A martyr to the cause of man, His blood is Freedoms Eucharist, And in the worlds great hero listHis name shall lead the van. Yes! ranked on Faiths white wings unfurledIn Heavens pure light, of him we say,He fell on the self-same day A Greater died to save the world. *16. Presented by wrn. H. Thomas, of Post No. 2,G. R. .Philadelphia, D«j>artnient? of Pennsylvania, irto wis instrumental in having this Tablet placed in? front of Independence Hall. The flowers shown in the photograph were Placed in their position about the Tablet on the Centenary of Lincolns: Birth, February 12il3fla. — TABLET AT PHILADELPHIAUnveiled February 21, 1903 THE POETS LINCOLN 219 HE who seeks the embodiment of the genius of theUnion finds it in the apotheosis of the Great Eman-cipator. There, under the arching skies he stands,erect, serene, resplendent; beneath his feet the brokenshackles of a race redeemed; upon his brow the diademof liberty with law, while around and behind him riseup, as an eternal guard of honor, the great army of theRepublic. In the belief that from the martyrs bier as from thebattlefield of right it is but one step to paradise, maywe not, on days like this, draw back the veil th
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