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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A BUST OF LINCOLN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poet's Biography
First Line: This was a man of mighty mould
Last Line: Stand as his cenotaph!
Subject(s): Heroism; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Heroes; Heroines
First Line: This was a man of mighty mould
Last Line: Stand as his cenotaph!
Subject(s): Heroism; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Heroes; Heroines
THIS was a man of mighty mould
Who walked erewhile our earthly ways,
Fashioned as leaders were of old
In the heroic days!
Mark how austere the rugged height
Of brow -- a will not wrought to bend!
Yet in the eyes behold the light
That made the foe a friend!
Sagacious he beyond the test
Of quibbling schools that praise or ban;
Supreme in all the broadest, best,
We hail American.
When bronze is but as ash to flame,
And marble but as wind-blown chaff,
Still shall the luster of his name
Stand as his cenotaph!
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