. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . VEDDERS ACCOMPANIMENT TO THE SONG OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 9 The final design concerns the last twoquatrains, with their tender in mcinoriainstrain. Does death end all ? Even the poet,who half suspects it, turns upon his ownspeculation, and seems to i)etition for at leasta continuance of life in the memory of hisfriends. The poppies stand in the garden, butLove bends sorrowful over the grave uponwhich she has turned down tlie empty glass,the form of which, by the way, is from theshallow Persian wine-cup, the same form be-ing preserved throughout the
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . VEDDERS ACCOMPANIMENT TO THE SONG OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 9 The final design concerns the last twoquatrains, with their tender in mcinoriainstrain. Does death end all ? Even the poet,who half suspects it, turns upon his ownspeculation, and seems to i)etition for at leasta continuance of life in the memory of hisfriends. The poppies stand in the garden, butLove bends sorrowful over the grave uponwhich she has turned down tlie empty glass,the form of which, by the way, is from theshallow Persian wine-cup, the same form be-ing preserved throughout the work. The artists notes, which have helped us inour reading of his designs, give a quaint sig-nificance to his signature, which he fanciesmay represent the high and low notes, thelight and shade in which the work is broken reed has been hastily plucked andrudely fashioned, but the double pipe thusformed is }et capable of producing somemusic worthy of the listening ear. The designs thus rapidly described consti-tute but a small part of the w
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