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Title: Complete works of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901, ed Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint ed Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909 Fish, Daniel, 1848-1924
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : F.D. Tandy Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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given the reins of power. It Is immaterialwhether we were for him, or against him; wholly Im-material. That, during four years, carrying withthem such a weight of responsibility as the worldnever witnessed before, he filled the vast space allottedhim In the eyes and actions of mankind. Is to say thathe was inspired of God, for nowhere else could hehave acquired the wisdom and the virtue. Where did Shakespeare get his genius? Wheredid Mozart get his music? Whose hand smote thelyre of the Scottish ploughman, and stayed the life ofthe German priest? God, God, and God alone; andas surely as these were raised up by God, inspired byGod, was Abraham Lincoln; and a thousand yearshence, no drama, no tragedy, no epic poem will befilled with greater wonder, or be followed by mankindwith deeper feeling than that which tells the story ofhis life and death. Hjua^ Ujli:5tiAAn^ Abraham Lincoln Piloto^j^rcniirc from a Porlrait taken from Life by C/uirles J. Barry in Springfield, Illinois, June. iS6o.
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Lincoln, the Man of the PeopleBy Edwin Markham When the Norn Mother saw the Whirlwind HourGreatening and darkening as it hurried on,She left the Heaven of Heroes and came downTo make a man to meet the mighty need.She took the tried clay of the common road —Clay warm yet with the genial heat of earth,Dashed through it all a strain of prophecy.Tempered the heap with touch of mortal tears;Then mixed a laughter with the serious stuff. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the wind that shakes the corn; The courage of the bird that dares the sea; The justice of the rain that loves all leaves; The pity of the snow that hides all scars; The loving kindness of the wayside well; The tolerance and equity of light That gives as freely to the shrinking weed *From Lincoln and Other Poems, published by McClure,Phillips and Co., New York. This poem revised and copyrighted,1906, by Edwin

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