. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. the conflict was over he was most liberal and concilia-tory. He was one of the most popular of died September 7, 1892. THE EMANCIPATION GROUP A MIDST thy sacred effigiesr\ Of old renown give place, O city, Freedom-loved! to hisWhose hand unchained a race. Take the worn frame, that rested not Save in a martyrs grave;The care-lined face, that none forgot, Bent to the kneeling slave. Let man be free! The mighty wordHe spoke was not his own; An impulse from the Highest stirredThese chiseled lips alone. The cloudy sign, th
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. the conflict was over he was most liberal and concilia-tory. He was one of the most popular of died September 7, 1892. THE EMANCIPATION GROUP A MIDST thy sacred effigiesr\ Of old renown give place, O city, Freedom-loved! to hisWhose hand unchained a race. Take the worn frame, that rested not Save in a martyrs grave;The care-lined face, that none forgot, Bent to the kneeling slave. Let man be free! The mighty wordHe spoke was not his own; An impulse from the Highest stirredThese chiseled lips alone. The cloudy sign, the fiery guide, Along his pathway ran,And Nature, through his voice, denied The ownership of man. 92 THE POETS LINCOLN We rest in peace where these sad eyesSaw peril, strife, and pain; His was the Nations sacrifice,And ours the priceless gain. O symbol of Gods will on earth As it is done aboveBear witness to the cost and worth Of justice and of love! Stand in thy place and testify To coming ages long,That truth is stronger than a lie, And righteousness than PRESIDENT LINCOLNPhotograph by Brady, Washington, D. C, 1863 94 THE POETS LINCOLN T HERON BROWN, born at Willimantic, Connecti-cut, April 29, 1832. Graduated at HartfordTheological Seminary in 1858; Newton Theolog-ical Institution, 1859. Ordained in Baptist Ministry,1859; Pastor South Framingham, Massachusetts,1859-62; Canton, Massachusetts, 1863-70; on staffYouths Companion since 1870. Author variousjuvenile stories; Life Songs (poems), 1894; NamelessWomen of the Bible, 1904; The Story of the Hymnsand Tunes, 1907; Under the Mulberry Tree (a novel),1909; The Birds of God, 1911. He died February14, 1914. THE LIBERATOR WHEN, scornful of a nations rest,The angry horns of Discord blewThere came a giant from the West,And found a giants work to do. He saw, in sorrow—and in wrath— A mighty empire in its strait,Torn like a planet in its path To warring hemisphere of hate. Between the thunder-clouds he stood; He harked to
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