English poem
Abraham Lincoln
by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903)
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.
"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!