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Title: Barnard's Lincoln, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft to the city of Cincinnati; the creation and dedication of George Grey Barnard's statue of Abraham Lincoln, including the address of William Howard Taft
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Subjects: Barnard, George Grey, 1863- Lincoln Statue (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Publisher: Cincinnati, Stewart & Kidd company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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r see, the double cross welted thereon.The emblem of a statesmans Calvary!Uncomely face—but it was such as woreThe prints of vigil and the scars of grief,A face more marred than any mans, save One,And save that One a face more beautiful. Those furrows, deftly molded, came from tears, The visualizing of vicarious pain. That writhed curve of lips marks forced control, Restraint of impulse for the sake of duty. Those intercessory eyes gaze awesomely, Seeing far off as if they searched Gods eyes For convenant vindication, finding it. Yon brow, it bears the impress of a Hand Upon the sculptors, that historic front May show receptive to divine ideals, May signal truths elect interpreter. BARNARDS LINCOLN 17 So stands he regnant in triumphant bronze, A spirit mastering fate by faith and love And imaging rights lordship oer the world— So stands he, Heaven and Earths great commoner, Gods and the Peoples, light unto the nations, Lincoln the deathless, Lincoln the beloved. The Sculptors View
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1hotograph by Underwood & Underwood. Barnard in His Studio The Sculptors View of Lincoln M BY George Grey Barnard Y earliest recollections are of mygrandfathers talks of Douglas andLincoln. A friend to both, he oftentold stories of Douglas, princely, stately,elegant, and Lincoln, rising from poverty toPresident. This left but one image in mychildhood mind: the mighty man who grewfrom out the soil and the hardships of the earth.He who had within him that indomitable spirit,that great call, and followed it straight to hisdestiny. We are all tools to the Creator, bad or good.Lincoln was chilled in all the streams of life,to make ready the tool of the nation and man-kind. Many have stood at the bedside of theirdead mothers, but few at seven years of agehave helped to make the coffin and dig thegrave of a mother. And such a mother as Lin-colns must have had made greater his agony, 21 22 BARNARDS LINCOLN left a memory so vital that through life thisgiant, physically and mentally, mother

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