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Show III NATION'S HEART More Enduring Than Granite Memorial Me-morial !s Inscribed Lincoln's Lin-coln's Name. WE have raised tall granite columnt in memory of men Whose deeds have won them glory and their lives heroic been; Memorials, lest we forget the kind of of men they were, To keep alive the gratitude that thought of them should stir. We weave their names in story, song and eulogistic speech, While remembering the lessons that noble lives should teach. One needs no granite columns to perpetuate per-petuate his fame Deep graven on the human heart is Abraham Lincoln's name. His youth spent 'midst the rugged scenes of western frontier life, When every day meant hours of toil and every hour meant strife; Where face to face with nature he her free-born spirit breathed. And was heir to sturdy manhood by fearless sires bequeathed. His mind was an inquiring one, books his companions were, Though the sources then of knowledge, compared with now, were rare; But inch by inch and step by step he forward pressed his way, Until he found himself the peer of leaders of his day. As lawyer, legislator and as congressman congress-man he shone ' With grim originality and power all his own, And when the nation called him to the presidential chair They found in him a leader well equipped to do and dare. His memory is history; how well he did his part Is proven, for his name's Inscribed upon the nation's heart, His life a benediction, falling like some "holy psalm" We know him now as they did then, aa "Father Abraham." The dear old flag he loved so well unsullied un-sullied still remains, With not a single mark or spot of treason's trea-son's cruel stains; O'er a united land it waves from mountain moun-tain top to sea, An emblem is to all the world of justice, jus-tice, liberty. Fraternal bords bind all the states in one united whole; What now exists was clearly seen by his prophetic soul. Though massive monuments we raise, thus honoring his name, Yet in the hearts of patriots shall live his truest fame. Augustus Treadwell, in New York Times. |