The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-11-05
DEDICATION PORN.
BY JAMES JUDsoN LORD.

D JAMES JCD6ON LOkD.
We present below the full text of
the poem read by Richard Edwards,
l. L. ID. at the IN yelling Of the Statue
OF Abraham Lincoln, on the National
Lincoln Monument Springfield, H.,
Thuredsy, October Is, 1874
We build not here a temple or a shrins,
Nor hero-fane 10 demIgods divine
Nor 10 the clouds q superstructure rear
For mans ambition or fO- servile fear
Sor 70 tas Dust7 out % the deeds alone
For where patriot lived. or hero fell,
The datsled turf would mark the spot as
well.
What, though the Pyramids, with apex
Like Alpine peaks. eleave Esypt's rAlnless
And cast grim shadows DER desert land
Forever blightsd by oppressionis hand
No patriot zeal their deep foundations laid
No freeman's hand their darkeued chambers
No public veal inspired the heart with love,
To see their summiLs w'rlng high above
Inc ruling Pharaoh. proud and g0ry-stained,
WIN vain ambitions never yet attained -
Win brow e0clOuded as his marble thrones
And heart unyielding as the building stone :;
sought with the scourge 70 make mankind
And heavens free sunlight darker than
their graves
His but 20 viii, and theirs to yield and feel,
Denies all mercy, and all right offends,
Till on his head tn Avenginy Plague de-
scends.
Historic Justice bids the nations know
Thai through each land OF slaves = Nile OF
blood shall now;
And VendOme Columns on people thrust,
Are, by the people, leveid with the dust
Mo- stone- nor brOnzs. can ut memorials
For deeds OF valor on the bloody field.
Meath wars dark clouds the sturdy vOlun-
teer,
By freedom taught bis country to revere,
Bids home ana friends hasty, sad sdieu,
And treads where dangers ali hls steps pur-
Finds cold and famine on his d auntiess way,
And with mute patience brooks the loog do
Or hears the trumpet, or the thrilling drum
PeaIs the long ROLL that calls: ''rhey come
Then % the IrOnt with battling hosts he
And nves in triumph. or for freedom dies;
Ihund'ring amaIn along the rocky strand,
The ocean claims her hOnOrs with the
Loud on the gale she chimes her wild re-
frain.
Or with low Inurmur walls her heroes slain
In CORY hulkss with splinter q mast and spar,
Rock on her stormy breast the valiant Tar
Lashed TO the mast he gives the high com
Or midst The n ght sinks with the Cumber-
Iand-t
Beloved banner Of the azure sky,
Thy rightIuI home whereer thy eagles fiy
On thy blue 1eld the stars Of heav'n descend,
And 10 our day puTer lnstre lend.
o, Righteous 9odf VINO guards the right al
And baie Thy peace to come, sand come to
And whils war. deluss nH'd the land with
blood,
With bow or promlse arch'd the crimson
nOOd,-
From fraLrlcldal strife our banner screen,
And let it float henesfOrth In sxies serene.
Yet enpnlng art shall here her triunPhs
And ISursiid bArLs their choicest anthems
sing,
Here hon0r'd aga shall bare its WIntry brow,
And youth 10 nroo1om MAKE = spartan vow,
Here ripen'd manhood from Its walks pro-
Shall come and halt, a. If on halIowed
ground.
Here Shall the urn with fragrant wreaths
be dreSt,
By tender ha nds the now'ry tribute prest.
And vending westward. nOha expressions
far,
Shall pilgrims come led by our freedom star;
While bending iOWIy, Is DER frtendly pail
The silent tears from eOon cheeks shall fall.
Sterile and vain the tributes which we pay
II Is the past that cOn5ecrates to-day.
The spot where rests one OF the noble few
VINO saw the right aud dared the right 70
do.
True 10 himself aud to his fellow men,
With patient hand ne moved the potent
pen,
Whose inky stream did, like the Red seas
dow
Such bondage break and such host DER
throw!
The simple parchment on Its fieeting page
Bespeaks the import OF the better age
When man, for man, no more snail forge
the chain,
Nor armies tread the shore, nor navies plOw
the main.
Then shall this boon to human freedom CIV
eE
Be fitly deemed sacred gift Of heaven
Though OF the earth, II 4s no less divine
Founded on truth it will forever shine,
Rejecting rays from heavens unchangtng
The law OF right and brotherhood ofman-
egyptian marble is eIouded, or variesa-
ted.
gut@6aftie q II 56fte Bay.
IFrigate Cumberland sunk by Rebel Ram
Merrimack thocrew continued to hight Till
the ship went down.
l.And come TO stay" Mr.. Ldncoln's letter
TO Hon. j. c. COnkltng, August Is, 1858.