...already realized: " Great captains, with their guns and drams, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shrill behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise,...

...choosing sweet clay from the breast of the unexhausted West With stuff untainted shaped a hero new. Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame. New birth of our new soil, the first American." Underlying all Lowell's public sentiments, furnishing the bed-rock on which his public ideas were based,...

...Abraham Lincoln. " Great captains with their guns and drams Disturb our judgment for the hour; But at last silence comes: These all are gone, and, standing...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." It is a poet's verdict; but it rings in the authentic tone of the seer. It must be also the verdict...

...wise years decide. Great captains with their drums and guns Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." ONE OF THE LAST LINCOLN PORTRAITS. From a photograph taken March 6, 1865. &* /^.^ ^ 2IO CHAPTER XIII...

...the grand climax: " Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone and, standing...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American ; " and the forty lines of Under the Old Him, commencing " Virginia gave us this imperial man," should...

...wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all' are gone, and, standing...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. VII Long as man's hope insatiate can discern Or only guess some more inspiring goal Outside of Self,...

...grand climax : " Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone and, standing...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American ; " and the forty lines of Under the Old JElm, commencing " Virginia gave us this imperial man," should...

...wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. Father, we thank Thee for him, Thy great, noble son. We thank Thee that we are fellow-countrymen of...

...Abraham Lincoln. " Great captains with their guns and drums Disturb our judgment for the hour; But at last silence comes: These all are gone, and standing...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." It is a poet's verdict; but it rings in the authentic tone of the seer. It must be also the verdict...

...Abraham Lincoln. " Great captains with their gnus and drums Disturb our judgment for the hour; But at last silence comes: These all are gone, and, standing...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." It is a poet's verdict; but it rings in the authentic tone of the seer. It must be also the verdict...