The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-07-08
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

FoULLY AssAssIsATED. APRIL IA. 1865.
VOC lay a wreath murdered LlScOLS's bier,
Fou, who with mOcking pencil wont TO trace
Broad for the seIEcomrIacent British sneer,
HIS length Of shambling limb, his rarrcwcd face.
gaunt gnarled hands his unkenp bEisslins hair,
Ills Earb uncouth, his bearing i'll at
His lack Of all We prize as deboniar,
os power will TO shine, Of art to please
You whose smart pen backed up the pencils laugh,
Judging each step, though the way were pl-in
Reckless, 20 Il could point its paragraph,
Of chiefs perpIexty, peoples pal
Beside this corpse that bears for winding. sheet
The stars and Stripes he lived to anew,
Between the urners at his head and feet,
Say scurrI jester, is there room for yoW'
Yes he had lived 10 shame from my sneer,
To my pencil, aud confute my pen
To make this hind OF princes peer,
This rai-spiitter, true-OOrn king OF men
Sy shallow Judgment had learnt rue.
Noting how to OCCASIONS height he rose,
How hia quaint made home-;ruth true,
How, iron-like, his temper grew by blows
How humble yet how hopeful he could be
How in sa5d fortune AMI Il III the
Nor bitter in success, boastfuI he,
Tlfra,y FOR golI, fzyeEsh for fame.
lie vent about MA yzork-such work a. few
Ever had laii on head and heart and hand
A. ore Nho knows, where there's task to do,
Mans honest will Heavens good-grace command
Who trusts the strength will with the burden grow.
That God makes Instruments to work HIS viii. -
II buE that will arrive q know.
Nor tamper with the weights Of good snd IL.
So ~ weat forth to battle. on the side
That he felt clear Libertys snI Rights,
a. in his peasant boyhood he had piled
His warfare with rude Natures th.ar;iag nights
The uncIeared forest, the unbroken soil,
The iron barr, that the Iumberers axe,
The rapid that o'erbears the bostulan's toi
The prairie, hiding the mazed wanderers tracks.
The smbushed Indian, and the prowIing bear
such the needs that helped his youth train
Rough eu,;lre-but such large frai; may bear,
Il but their stocks be q right srth aad grain.
20 he grew up. a destined work to do,
And live! 20 DO it ; four I~ag-suderinS year,
IIl-fsIe, III feeling, HI-rePor; lived through,
And ;hsu he heard the Kisses change te8rs.
The tauu;s to tribute. the abuse 70 praise,
Ani took both with the un~avering mood
TIL, as he came light, from dsrklng days,
seemed 70 touch the goal from where he stood
4 friau hand between the goal sad him,
Reached from behind his baes, trigger press-
those PerPievei aud patient eyes Gin.
Thas- Saun;, lous-lahorns limbs were laid to
Ina ForIs q mercy were upon hs lips.
Forgiveness in his hart and on his pen.
When this sIe murderer brought swift eclipse
To thoughts OF peace earth, good viii to
The Oil World and the New, fr-m sea 20 sea,
Ctter voice Of sympathy and shame.
sors bsarr. 80 stopped when It a last beat high.
SAD lie, cut shortjust it, triumph
deed accurst Strokes have been struc< before
BY sssassin's hand, whereof men doubt
Il mere OF horror disgrace they bore;
But thy foul crime, Ike Gains stands darky QUE.
yle-hsni, that brandsst murder strife,
whate'sr it, grounds, stoutly and aobIy stTiren5
AaI With th- martyrs cr1wE cEownest 4 life
Wi;1 rzuch 70 praise, Httlr be forgiven: