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Abraham Lincoln

by Stoddard Richard Henry

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Author: Stoddard Richard Henry

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Richard Henry Stoddard (1825 - 1903), an American poet and critic, became the author of a classic poem about the life of Abraham Lincoln. It is a poetical tribute to this American president, a picture of his personality and contribution to the history of the country.

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...Madness, that dark night, unseen, Had in our chambers crept, And murdered while we slept!We woke to find a mourning Earth--Our Lares shivered on the hearth, -- The roof-tree fallen, --all That could affright, appall!Such thunderbolts, in other lands, Have smitten the rod from royal hands, But spared, with us, till now, Each laurelled Cesar's brow!No Cesar he, whom we lament, A Man without a precedent, Sent, it would see, to do His work--and perish too!Not by the weary cares of State, The endless tasks, which will not wait, Which, often done in vain, Must yet be done again:Not in the dark, wild tide of War, Which rose so high, and rolled so far, Sweeping from sea to sea In awful anarchy:--Four fateful years of mortal strife, Which slowly drained the Nation's life, (Yet, for each drop that ran There sprang an armed man!)Not then;--but when by measures meet, --By victory, and by defeat, -- By courage, patience, skill, The People's fixed _"We will!"_Had pierced, had crushed Rebellion dead,...

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