. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. INCOLN 153 ENGLANDS SORROW From London Fun THE hand of an Assassin, glowing red,Shot like a firebrand through the westernsky;And stalwart Abraham Lincoln now is dead! O! felon heart that thus could basely dyeThe name of southerner with murderous gore! Could such a spirit come from mortal womb?And what possessed it that not heretofore It linked its coward mission with the tomb?Lincoln! thy fame shall sound through many an age, To prove that genius lives in humble birth;Thy name shall sound upon historic page, For midst thy faul
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. INCOLN 153 ENGLANDS SORROW From London Fun THE hand of an Assassin, glowing red,Shot like a firebrand through the westernsky;And stalwart Abraham Lincoln now is dead! O! felon heart that thus could basely dyeThe name of southerner with murderous gore! Could such a spirit come from mortal womb?And what possessed it that not heretofore It linked its coward mission with the tomb?Lincoln! thy fame shall sound through many an age, To prove that genius lives in humble birth;Thy name shall sound upon historic page, For midst thy faults we all esteemed thy worth. Gone art thou now! no more midst angry heat Shall thy calm spirit rule the surging tide,Which rolls where two contending nations meet, To still the passion and to curb the have looked and seen the fate of kings, Protectors, emperors, and such like men;Behold the man whose dirge all Europe sings, Now past the eulogy of mortal pen!He, like a lighthouse, fell athwart the strand; Let curses rest upon the assassins hand. *12. THE FUNERAL OF LINCOLNCeremonies in the East Room of the White House, April 10, 1SG5 AT ten minutes after twelve oclock Rev. Charlesl H. Hall, of the Church of the Epiphany, openedthe service by reading from the Episcopal BurialService for the Dead. Bishop Matthew Simpson ofthe Methodist Church then offered prayer, and the Phineas D. Gurley, pastor of the New York AvenuePresbyterian Church, at which Mr. Lincoln and hisfamily attended, delivered a sermon. The Rev. E. , , of the E Street Baptist Church, closedthe solemn service with prayer. THE POETS LINCOLN 155 PHINEAS DENSMORE GURLEY, born at Ham-ilton, New York, 1816. Educated at UnionCollege, Schenectady, New York. Taught duringvacation, graduated 1837. Studied theology at theTheological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. Waslicensed to preach in 1840. In 1840 he went to Indian-apolis, Indiana, and took charge of a church. In 1849he removed to Dayton
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