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Show Efrorite I M WWm F Abraham Lincoln it was once said that the prevailing sentiment of his powerful, yet sad, countenance was expressed ex-pressed in the line, "Oh; why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" The sympathetic observer, ob-server, who found there so splendid a significance, signifi-cance, guessed the se cret that lay within with almost clairvoyant clair-voyant insight. That is the opening line of the poem which was Lincoln's favorite. It was written by a young Scotchman, who died at the age of 37 the age fatal to Burns, Byron, Motherwell and other oth-er gifted poets. To those who appreciate meritorious verse,, the same pleasure can be enjoyed en-joyed here, in the reading of the poem in Its completeness, as was vouchsafed vouchsaf-ed Lincoln on that night of rare peac. and talk of beauty amid the tumult of war and stress of his people's peril. This fs the poem in full: |