LINCOLN.-PARKER. —NOEL. 543 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 1809-1865. That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.1 Speech at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863. With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. Second Inaugural Address. THEODORE PARKER. 1810-1860. There is what I call the American idea. . . . This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God: for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.1 Speech at the New England Antislavery Convention, THOMAS NOEL. Rattle his bones over the stones! He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns! The Pauper's Ride. 1 The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. - Daniel Webster, Speech, Jan. 26, 1830. The freeman casting with unpurchased hand Ibid. To an Insect. Poetry, a Metrical Essay. Their discords sting through Burns and Moore, You think they are crusaders, sent From some infernal clime, To pluck the eyes of Sentiment, And break the legs of Time. And, since, I never dare to write As funny as I can. The Music-Grinders. Ibid. The Height of the Ridiculous. The Last Reader. When the last reader reads no more. Thine eye was on the censer, And not the hand that bore it. Where go the poet's lines? Answer, ye evening tapers! Ye auburn locks, ye golden curls, Speak from your folded papers! Lines by a Clerk. The Poet's Lot. Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure, And, when you stick on conversation's burrs, You hear that boy laughing? - you think he 's all fun; Boston State-house is the hub of the Solar System. You could n't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, p. 143. SAMUEL F. SMITH. 1808 My country, 't is of thee, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, Let freedom ring. National Hymn. MARK LEMON. 1809-1870. O, would I were a boy again, When life seemed formed of sunny years, And all the heart then knew of pain Was wept away in transient tears! O, would I were a boy again. JAMES ALDRICH. 1810-1856. Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away, In statue-like repose. But when the sun, in all his state, Illumed the eastern skies, She passed through Glory's morning-gate, A Death-Bed. Ibid. ALFRED TENNYSON. And statesmen at her council met To the Queen. Broad based upon her people's will, Ibid. Recollections of the Arabian Nights. The Poet. Across the walnuts and the wine. The Miller's Daughter. I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. The Palace of Art. Her manners had not that repose Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere. Lady Clara Vere de Vere. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, "T is only noble to be good.2 Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. Stanza 5. Stanza 7. 1 This line stands in the edition of 1842 (Moxon, 2 vols.), The gardener Adam and his wife, and has been restored by the author in his edition of 1873. 2 Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus. Ibid. Juvenal, Satire viii. Line 20. |