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Title: Selections from Washington, Lincoln, Bryant, Jefferson, and McKinley : especially selected for the use of grammar and high schools
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Ainsworth, F. F United States. Declaration of Independence Washington, George, 1732-1799. Farewell address Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878. Abraham Lincoln McKinley, William, 1843-1901
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Patriotism Supplementary reading American poetry
Publisher: Chicago : Ainsworth & Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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be stopped.These buildings will disappear, this creation of art andbeauty and industry will perish from sight, but theirinfluence will remain to Make it live beyond its too short livingWith praises and thanksgiving. Who can tell the new thoughts that have been awakenedthe ambitions fired and the high achievements that willbe wrought through this.exposition? Gentlemen, let us ever remember that our interestis in concord, not conflict, and that our real eminencerests in the victories of peace, not those of war. Wehope that all who are represented here may be movedto higher and nobler effort for their own and the worldsgood, and that out of this city may come not only greatercommerce and trade for us all but, more essential thanthese relations of mutual respect, confidence and friend-ship which will deepen and endure. Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouch-safe prosperity, happiness and peace to all our neigh-bors and like blessings to all the peoples and powers ofearth. V
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WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. BRYANT. ^November 3, 1794—June 12, 1878. • I. THE ANTIQUITY OF FREEDOM. II. THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE SNOW. III. THE PLANTING OF THE APPLE TREE. IV. A FOREST HYMN.V. THANATOPSIS. VI. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. How calm, cool and meditative is the spot, in the very heart Anature, where the poet permits his thoughts go up the long, dimpath of years back to the earliest days of liberty. Note the strongand striking contrast in the Personifications of Freedom and Tyranny.The one seems born of heaven, A bearded man, armed to the teeth,and sent forth Divinely appointed to strengthen the character andinspire the souls of mankind; the other, born of hades, feebler yetsubtler, crowned as the genius of evil and mischief seems com-missioned to sow the seeds of injustice, and thwart the consum-mation of Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men. The poem whether read, committed or analyzed, is worthy outpatient, patriotic study. ♦Copyrighted by W. C. Bryant, 1878. THE ANTIQUITY OF FREEDOM

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