Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...Courageous, and of fortitude To put aside the narrow aims Of factor, for the public good. Men loving justice for the race. Not for the great ones, and the few, Less studious of outward grace Than careful to be clean all through. Men holding state, not self, the first, Ready when all the deep is tossed With storms, and worst is come to worst. To save the Ship at any cost. Men upright, and of steady knees, That only to the truth will bow; Lord, help us choose such men as these, For only such can save us now. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. FOULLY ASSASSINATED, APRIL, 1865. INSCRIBED TO PUNCH. No glittering chaplet brought from other lands! As in his life, this man, in death, is ours; His own loved prairies o'er his "gaunt gnarled hands" Have fitly drawn their sheet of summer flowers! What need hath he now of a tardy crown, His name from mocking jest and sneer to save? When every ploughman turns his furrow down As soft as though it fell upon his grave. He was a man whose like the world again Shall never see, to vex with blame or praise; The landmarks that attest his bright, brief reign Are battles, not the pomps of galadays! The grandest leader of the grandest war That ever time in history gave a place; What were the tinsel flattery of a star To such a breast! or what a ribbon's grace! 'T is to th' man, and th' man's honest worth, The nation's loyalty in tears upsprings; Through him the soil of labor shines nenceforth High o'er the silken broideries of kings. The mechanism of external forms--The shrifts that courtiers put their bodies through, Were alien ways to him--his brawny arms Had other work than posturing to do! Born of the people, well he knew to grasp The wants and wishes of the weak and small; Therefore we hold him with no shadowy...