. Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln . ould think;From the death we are shrinl^iug, our fathers would shrink;To tlie life we are clinging, they also would cling—But it speeds frojn us all, like the bird on the wing. rhey loved—but the story we cannot unfold ;They scorned—but the heart of the haughty is cold;They grieved—but no wail from their slumber will come;They joyed—but the tongue of their gladness is dumb. They died—ay, they died—we things that ar
. Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln . ould think;From the death we are shrinl^iug, our fathers would shrink;To tlie life we are clinging, they also would cling—But it speeds frojn us all, like the bird on the wing. rhey loved—but the story we cannot unfold ;They scorned—but the heart of the haughty is cold;They grieved—but no wail from their slumber will come;They joyed—but the tongue of their gladness is dumb. They died—ay, they died—we things that are now,That walk on the turf that lies over their make in their dwellings a transient the things that they met on their pilgrimage road. Yea ! hope aud despondency, pleasure and mingled together in sunshine and rain ;And Ihe smile and the tear, the song and the follow each other, like surge upon surge. Tis the wink of an eye—tis the draught of a the blossom of health to the paleness of death;From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud:—Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? —Alexander
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