. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. oryAnd humbly deemed himself to beOnly the instrument of a Divine decree. Rejoicing in the faith of brighter coming days His fervent prayers were merged in those of praise. THE POETS LINCOLN 99 Like unto psalmists of the olden time His uttered thoughts inspired the nations song, Throughout the land the chorus rose sublime,The exultant triumph of the right oer wrong. Behold, what God the Lord hath wrought, More than we asked, or hoped, or the Red sea of blood and carnageHe brought our nation free of bondage. Wit
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. oryAnd humbly deemed himself to beOnly the instrument of a Divine decree. Rejoicing in the faith of brighter coming days His fervent prayers were merged in those of praise. THE POETS LINCOLN 99 Like unto psalmists of the olden time His uttered thoughts inspired the nations song, Throughout the land the chorus rose sublime,The exultant triumph of the right oer wrong. Behold, what God the Lord hath wrought, More than we asked, or hoped, or the Red sea of blood and carnageHe brought our nation free of bondage. With Moses sing, yea shout O North; With Miriam answer back O South:That He hath triumphed gloriously. Oh why the sudden blotting out of light?The cloud of sorrow, dark as Plutonian night,That cast its lengthening shadow oer the land;Changing to funeral dirge the choral as the typhoons breath—The harbinger of death—- The cruel deed of hateSwept the grand chief this day, and ever aye, The nation mourns her martvrs fate. 100 THE POETS LINCOLN. ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE DEDICATIONOF THE CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG FOUR score and seven years ago our fathers broughtforth on this continent a new nation, conceivedI in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition thatall men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testingwhether that nation, or any nation so conceived andso dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a greatbattlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate THE POETS LINCOLN 101 a portion of that field as a final resting place for thosewho here gave their lives that that nation might live,[t is altogether fitting and proper that we should dothis. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we can-not consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. Thebrave men, living and dead, who struggled here, haveconsecrated it, far above our poor power to add ordetract. The world will little note, nor long rememberwhat we say here, but it can never fo
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