ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXI, Issue 2501, 26 July 1865, Page 5

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865.

You lay a wreath on murdored Lincoln's blor, You, who with mocking ponill wont to traco, Broad for tho self-complacent British saoor, - His !o\igth of shambling limb, hi* furrowed face, His gaunt, gnailed hands, his unkompt, bristling hiiir, llis gaib uncouth, his bearing ill at oaso, His lack of nil wo prize as debonnnii, Of power or will to »hine, of art to please. You, whose smaitpcn backed up tho pencil* laugh, Judgiug each stop, as though tho way wore plain : Reckless, so it could point its paragraph, Of chief's pirploxity, or poopla's pain. Beside this corpse, that bear* for winding-sheet Tho Stars and Stripes ho lived to rear anew, Between tho mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurril-jestcr, i» thcr» room for you? Yes, ho had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my penTo make mo owa this hind of princes peer, Tills nul-splittor a. true-born king of men. My shallow judgment I had learnt to rue, .Noting how to occasion's height ho roso, How his quaint wit mad* homo truth teem more trot How, iron-like, his temper grew by blows. now humble yet how hopeful he could ho ; ilow in good fortune and in ill the same Nor bitter in success, nor boastful ho, Thirsty for gold, nor feverish for fame. He went about his work — such work as few Ever had laid on head and heart and hand — Ai one who knows whoro thero's a task to do, Man's honest will must Heaven's good grace command "Who trusts tho strength will with the burden crow, Th»t Qod makes instruments to work his" will, If but that, will we can arrive t,o know, Nor. tamper with tho weights of good and 111. So he went forth' to battle, on tho IUU That ho felt clear was Liberty's and Right's, As in his peasant boyhood ho had plied , His warfare with rudt Niiuro'i thwarting might*— The uncleared forest, the unbroken soU, I - Tho Iron-bark, that turns the lumberer's nio, The rapid, that o'orbears the boatman* toil, Tho prairie, hiding tho mazed wanderer's tracks ; , Tho arobushod Indian, and tho prowling boar— Such wore tho needs that helped his youtli to train : Rough culture — but such trees largo fruit may bear, If but their stock* b* of right girth and grain. So he grow up, a destined work to do, - > And lived >to do it : four long suffering year* 1 ' 111-fato, ill-foeltng, IU-r«port, lived thiough, And then he heard the hisses chant o to cheers, ,l, l Tho taunts' to tiibute, th* abuse to" prcist, <, And took both with the same unwavering mood : Till, as ho camo on light, from darkling day», < ■ ; , And. letmed to touch tho goal from vrhor* he "stood, A Won hand, between the goal and him, *StS t _, v Reached from behind his (back, a trigger prest,— ■ ,' And those perplexed and patitnt ev«s wen dim, '\ ' ,' Those gaunt, long-labouring. limbs were laid to rest !> - , The words of moroy w«Vo upon M* lips; -^ .3 ,-' „ !->' w >- ' Jorgiveness.in hU'lieart and on his p«n, J,"-» -•? J ► - k Whtn this vile murderer'bfomht swift eolipso '~, " ; 7 v To thoughts of povco on earth, good-\riU' to ui«n. ,t " 1 - -The Old World »n*d tho New, from so» to *e»,* ' f , > ,' * • >\ „ Uttov v ono volco of* sympathy »nd*hamt! I '»V r^-< j * ,- Sorohoart, so'stopp»d'whin-ifc at last' bea't hlgli/K* ;-Jf .-V ' - \ Sad life, out short just 01 itaitriumph'cumo.-'.^'jC/* V*-^- 1 L AdoMWcuratl^Strokis^ave^Vtnjitruolc^^fort-'^^^,', 7 <? 'By tho auassln'Mand/wtioreof men'doubt^^li^S^ -'-!■ ,-If more of hVrror or di*gr«ce th«y w bore';;|r^f^ J £3^J*"Jg t X l t ßutthyJoul > orlme, l Uk^CainV I '*n^ I ,d* r^^°4»!? ; iteSfo > ti % .' Yilo hand,"th»t brando»t,muvd«r on» itrae7Jf^.M^*^gi! J^-^WhiteV it*'er6undsr*foutly>ndjioblT« *tthm^Mm ' tf-x And witK'.tKetmwtyr'Corown'orownest a ufoJ|£H^sgtt,£& *Sri's\Vith,muoh to prALio,*litil«'to bo'for|{T«tl*^fe)iM^§S&