LINCOLN DAY

FEBRUARY TWELFTH

A TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN

From humble parentage and poverty, old Nature reared him,
And the world beheld her ablest, noblest man;

Few were his joys and many and terrible his trials,

But grandly he met them as only true great souls can.
Our nation's martyr-pure, honest, patient, tender-
Thou who did'st suffer agony e'en for the slave,

Our flag's defender, our brave immortal teacher!
I lay this humble tribute on thy honored grave.

-Paul DeVere.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Nature, they say, doth dote,
And cannot make a man

Save on some worn-out plan,

Repeating us by rote.

For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw,
And, choosing sweet clay from the breast

Of the unexhausted West,

With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,

Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
Great captains, with their guns and drums,
Disturb our judgment for the hour,

But at last silence comes,

These all are gone, and, standing like a tower,
Our children shall behold his fame;

The kindly, earnest, grave, foreseeing man,
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame.
New birth of our new soil-the first American.

-James Russell Lowell.

REVERENCE FOR LAWS

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spellingbooks, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

-From an address at Springfield, Ill., Jan. 27, 1837.

STATUE OF LINCOLN BY ST. GAUDENS.

God make us worthy of the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
-Phillips Brooks.

The statue of Lincoln by Augustus Saint-Gaudens is in Lincoln Park, Chicago. It is made of bronze and is one of the greatest pieces of sculpture in the United States.

All (Tune, Auld Lang Syne)

We wave the flag, the bonny flag

Of red and white and blue,

This flag that floates o'er land and sea,
To it we will be true.

Then hail the flag, this bonny flag,

We'll give it three times three,

God bless the land that owns this flag
The land of liberty.

-Alice Roache, Ironwood, Michigan,

WORDS OF LINCOLN

Liberty is your birthright.

Truth is everything.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true; I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government practically just so much.

Whatever is calculated to improve the condition of the honest, struggling, laboring man, I am for that thing.

I must stand with anybody that stands right; stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

You can fool some of the people some of the time, or all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Success does not so much depend on external help as on self-reliance.
It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong.
If our sense of duty forbids, then let us stand by our sense of duty.
Workingmen are the basis of all governments.

Mercy bears richer rewards than strict justice.

No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty-none less inclined to take, or touch, aught which they have not honestly earned.

This country, with all its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on and degraded and imbruted by its fellows. It is easy to conceive that all these shades of opinion, and even more, may be sincerely entertained by honest and truthful men.

This government is expressly charged with the duty of providing for. the general welfare.

LINCOLN'S DESCRIPTION OF HIMSELF

"If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said I am, in height six feet four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; of dark complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes. No other marks or brands are recollected."

SONG MY OWN UNITED STATES

BY SCHOOL.

The poet sings of sunny France, fair, olive laden Spain;
The Grecian Isles, Italia's smiles and India's torrid plain;
Of Egypt, countless ages old; dark Afric's palms and dates.
Let me acclaim the land I name my own United States!

Chorus--I love ev'ry inch of her prairie land;

Each stone on her mountain's side.
I love ev'ry drop of the water clear
That flows in her rivers wide.
I love ev'ry tree, ev'ry blade of grass
Within Columbia's gates.

The Queen of the Earth
Is the land of my birth-
My own United States!

The poet sings of Switzerland, Braw Scotland's heathered moor, The shimmering sheen of Ireland's green, Old England's rock-bound shore,

Quaint Holland and the Fatherland, Their charm in verse relates, Let me acclaim the land I name-my own United States;

-M. Witmark & Sons, Publishers, New York City.