The Poets' Lincoln : Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President
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Allen visited his friend, the judge, in Washington, and they made a little pil grimage to the New York Avenue Presbyterian church. In the Lincoln pew Dr. Allen sat and meditated, and on his way back he wrote the verses. "I had seen the Lincoln statue many times, " says Dr. Allen, "but, somehow, I could not get started on the poem I knew could be written around it. " And Judge Stafford wrote to his friend in Newark: "I had seen the Lincoln pew a score of times without poetic result, yet you come... on a one-day visit and carry away the inspiration needed. " THE POETS LINCOLN 81 LINCOLN S CHURCH IN WASHINGTON WITHIN the historic church both eye and soul Perceived it. Twas the pew where Lincoln sat The only Lincoln God hath given to men Olden among the modern seats of prayer, Dark like the sixties, place and past akin. All else has changed, but this remains the same, A sanctuary in a sanctuary. Where Lincoln pra} T ed! What passion had his soul Mixt faith and anguish melting into prayer Upon the burning altar of God s fane, A nation s altar even as his own.
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