| Show A t LINCOLN B I It i it iI lOpo proposed cd to erect a Lincoln Memorial a at Washington Tho plans plan have Jin been heen designed by the tho American I Institute of Architect Time rho They contemplate cont contemplate con con- t template u it memorial building auf an au f American mell n adaptation of t. t tho the Greek t temple plan an anti aud a bridge across tho limo Potomac Time The approach to th bridge ge on time the Washington ash side wUllie will wUl willbe willbe be lie from thy plaza at tho Uw tt front of ot tho temple le 1 will It-will will bo be a u expression ion of or ortho the Iho nations nation's regard for 01 Lincoln In Iii J Ills Ills' hi day ChiO there was wa another bridge c ca a across ross oss the time Potomac and it cost him mait many a trou troubled le nl night ht Across that old olt wooden bridge go the people w wont went nt out from froin Wa Washington one m morning to tv 1 battle hattle of ot Bull Hull Run nun to to u aco seo co tho iho rebels put And across that bridge e in the evening an and all nil through Limo tho night p Poured a n. ho host t of or terrified p people ople civilians civilian and soldiers jurin and and women vehicles and and onel foot toot countrymen and city folk tho folk tho demoralized mob that sl spread terror terro In Washington and believed tho the rebels were rl right hl behInd behind behind be be- hind them thorn And to the end nd of or the time war wU thero there was nel never nE a a time when Wn Washington tou dl did not watch that bri bridge go with anxious lo Conditions have o changed The Potomac flows to tho time sea There are arc no rebellious hosts on either cither bank of It ft Thero There Is no foe Coo marching upon Washington The Time Virginia shore shoto Is h a friendly ly shore shore shore- and not alien land Back Dac of or Virginia stretches thirteen states once troubled with insurgent arms no now forever at t peace forever In union with the na un- tion lion And lI tho tile proposed o c bridge Is but a Unit link uniting them In with that North orth which once thoy I feared an anti and hated And on the hither i approach to the limo bridge will 8 stand in greeting tho the marble temple to the theman theman theman man whose wisdom and courage and strength k kept pt tho the Potomac from beIng being be be- ing lug a 3 boun boundary ary hue lino nn and preserved us ono one people all time the millions to the north and to the time south of or It It Is fitting that the bridge and amid temple tel shall be 1 in this title the centennial year ear of at Lincoln And nd n that tho man who was born when tho ho eagles of ot dominated tho the old world shall bo be remembered ere when the Stars nn and Stripes lift their glorious promise of freedom and rind rl right ht from flom the tho heart of the time new continent to tho the of ot all time the earth carth |
