. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. ming for the mornFor whose behest this man was born. A man of homely, rustic ways,Yet he achieves the forums praiseAnd soon earths highest meed has won,The seat and sway of Washington. THE POETS LINCOLN No throne of honors and delights,Distrustful days and sleepless nights,To struggle, suffer and aspire,Like Israel, led by cloud and fire. A treacherous shot, a sob of rest,A martyrs palm upon his breast,A welcome from the glorious seatWhere blameless souls of heroes meet. And thrilling, through unmeasured days,A song of gra
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. ming for the mornFor whose behest this man was born. A man of homely, rustic ways,Yet he achieves the forums praiseAnd soon earths highest meed has won,The seat and sway of Washington. THE POETS LINCOLN No throne of honors and delights,Distrustful days and sleepless nights,To struggle, suffer and aspire,Like Israel, led by cloud and fire. A treacherous shot, a sob of rest,A martyrs palm upon his breast,A welcome from the glorious seatWhere blameless souls of heroes meet. And thrilling, through unmeasured days,A song of gratitude and praise,A cry that all the earth shall heed,To God, who gave him for our need. THE GREAT OAK SOME men are born, while others seem to growFrom out the soil, like towering trees that spreadTheir strong, broad limbs in shelter overheadWhen tempest storms, protecting all below. Lincoln, Great Oak of a Nations life,Rose from the soil, with all its virgin powerEmplanted in him for the fateful hour,When he might save a Nation in its strife. —Bennett LINCOLN BY THE CABIN FIRELying down was Lincolns favorite attitude while reading or studying. Thisremained a habit with him throughout life.—Henry C. Whitney in his Lifeof Lincoln. THE POETS LINCOLN 17 NOAH DAVIS, born in Haverhill, New Hampshire,September 10,1818. He was educated at Albion,New York, and in the Seminary at Lima, studiedlaw, and was admitted to the bar in 1841. Appointed inMarch, 1857, a justice of the New York Supreme served in Congress from March 4, 1869, till July20, 1870, when he resigned, having been appointed byPresident Grant, U. S. Attorney for the Southern Dis-trict of New York. He resigned that office on Dec. 31,1872, being elected justice of the New York StateSupreme Court. In 1874, he became presiding January, 1887, he was retired from the bench andresumed practice. He died in New York in 1902. LINCOLN 4 LMOST a hundred years ago, in a lonely hut,r^L Of the dark and bl
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