The Poets' Lincoln : Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President C.1
The book The Poets' Lincoln : Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President C.1 was written by author Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline), 1842-1930 Ed Here you can read free online of The Poets' Lincoln : Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President C.1 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Poets' Lincoln : Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President C.1 a good or bad book?
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British troops burned it in 1814, in President Madison's term. It was the first public building erected in Washington. It is constructed of Virginia freestone, and is 170 feet in length, 80 feet in depth, and consists of a rustic basement, two stories and an attic. JOHN VANCE CHENEY, born Groveland, New York, December 29, 1848. Graduated Temple Hill Academy, Genesee, New York, at seventeen. Assistant principal there two years later. Practiced law, New York, 1875-6; librarian Free Public Library..., San Francisco, 1887-94; Newberry Library, Chicago, 1894-1909; author, The Old Doctor, 1881; and a number of poems, 1887-1911. 76 THE POETS' LINCOLN 77 LINCOLN THE hour was on us; where the man? The fateful sands unfaltering ran, And up the way of tears He came into the years. Our pastoral captain. Forth he came, As one that answers to his name; Nor dreamed how high his charge, His work how fair and large, To set the stones back in the wall Lest the divided house should fall, And peace from men depart, Hope and the childlike heart.
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