Edited by Bliss Perry ABRAHAM LINCOLN EARLY SPEECHES SPRINGFIELD SPEECH COOPER UNION SPEECH INAUGURAL ADDRESSES GETTYSBURG ADDRESS SELECTED LETTERS LINCOLN'S LOST SPEECH NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY & MCCLURE CO. 1899 HARVARD Copyright, 1894, by JOHN G. Copyright, 1898, by Acknowledgment is due The Century Co. for per Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the 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 like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." LOWELL, Commemoration Ode. iii |