Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-06-26
Miscellany.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

tBy Rev. &. r. smith, author Of my Country, 'Tis Of
Thee.1
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Heroic statesman, haili
Thy honored name
with instrument and song we laud
Bow every mountain top, aud sheltered vale,
Aud rock aud stream
Aud iispinq tongue Of Infancy and age,
Aud manhood's prime, aud womans love,
Combine that honOred name 10 praise.
IL.
As to Anchise's tomb,
with reverent love, pious Hueas came
Intent, with festal rites,
To crown his fathers fame,
SO we, with grateful reverence, come to pay
This loving tribute at the sacred shrine
Where sleeps the patriot bold,
The statesman wise, the martyr prince,
The peerless man,
And on this shrine our fragrant garlands lay.
III.
Like the wild eagles flight.
When from his rocky height
Down on the plain he swOops, free as The air
Born with soul Of hre,
Born to be free,
Patient in toll, and danger, and alarm,
He ventured all for love OF liberty,
Aud helped the loWly In that bliss to share.
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Grandy be loved and lived.
Not his own age alone
Bears the proud impress Of his sovereign miLd.
Down the long march Of history
Ages and men shall see
What one great soul can be,
What one great soul can do
To make nation true:
To raise the weak,
The lost TO seek,
To be a ruler and father, too.
No scbemnR fool,
No slave to goddess rule,
Gracious, efhoent, meek. sublime, rehned'
Ambitions not Of wealth,
Nor power, nor place,
His aim, nobler race,
His title eminent-an honest mau;
His to lift up the rude,
His to be geat as good,
And good as great;
His to stem errors flood,
His but TO help and bless,
His to work Righteousness,
Aud save the state.
vi.
Brave, self-relant, wise,
Calm In emergencies,
Steady alike to wait, aud prompt to move;
In counsel great and safe,
Prudent TO plan;
Righteous 10 deal with sin,
Prone less 10 force than win,
Strong 10 his own stern will, and strong IN God
Conquering alone TO bless-
loving man.
VII.
Firm, but yet merciful,
In pity beautiful,
Calmly eonsiderate, serenely just
Nobly fOrgiving to the fallen foe;
He the meek sufferer from expressions blow;
RepaylDg Ill with good,
Zen as the sandal wood
Battles with rare perfume the sharp axe that smites
Unhinchng for the right,
Whate'er might come,
And, until death,
Fervent, decided, faithful to bis trust.
VIII.
Great souls can never die:
Death and decays damp fingers
Waste but the mortal.
A nobler life spreads its far vista vide
Beyond DEATHS portal;
Like an unfadng light
The life work fingers
The hero never dies; statesman and soldier fall,
The nation finds new life,
Add prosperous years and wealth and peace,
And hearts at rest and grander aims,
And righteousness,
And souls that dare TO be
Just as God made them-free;
| And he who falls crushed 10 the bitter strife
Lives magnihed, e1alted-ever lives:
His work bears fruit immortal
| So the great sun, ma jestic, plOws his way
| Through clouds and storms and dim eclipse,
| And winters cold aud summers heat,
And nightly dips
His flaming disk in the broad western sea,
But scatterH light aud blessing all the day;
Setting, he leaves the world
Richer and better for his light and love,
Warmer, more fertile more benigu
Sets but to rest on other lands, aud shine
Forever in the galaxy divine