And the tallying chant, the echo arous'd in my soul, With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe, With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird, Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their mem ory ever to keep, for the dead I loved so well, For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands and this for his dear sake, Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul, There in the fragrant pines and cedars, dusk and dim. LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE1 BY EDWIN MARKHAM Revised especially for this volume. When the Norn Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour The color of the ground was in him, the red earth; 1 All rights reserved by the author. As to the great oak flaring to the wind To the grave's low hill as to the Matterhorn Born of the ground, The Great West nursed him on her rugged knees. He slaked his thirst at all the wells of thought. From prairie cabin up to Capitol, One fire was on his spirit, one resolve – To strike the stroke that rounds the perfect star. So came the Captain with the thinking heart; And when the judgment thunders split the house, Wrenching the rafters from their ancient rest, |