Richard Henry Stoddard

“ The safer pillars of the State,
Whose calm, mature, wise words
Suppress the need of swords—
With no such tears as e'er were shed
Above the noblest of our Dead
Do we to-day deplore
The Man that is no more! ”

“ ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Born, Feb. 12th, 1809.
Assassinated, Good-Friday, April 14th, 1865.
"Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o' the building.
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"Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight
With a new Gorgon:—Do not bid me speak;
See, and then speak yourselves.—Awake! awake!
Ring the alarum-bell:—Murder! and treason!
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"Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself!—up, up, and see
The great doom's image! ”

“ Produced by The University of Michigan's Making of America
online book collection (http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moa/) .
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. An Horatian Ode.
By Richard Henry Stoddard.
New York:
Bunce & Huntington, Publishers,
540 Broadway. ”