Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE HUMAN LINCOLN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER


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THE HUMAN LINCOLN, by                    
First Line: God sometimes sends
Last Line: Beneath the sod.
Subject(s): God; Human Behavior; Humanity; Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Male-female Relations


God sometimes sends
From out His boundless treasure-house of life
A God-like man;
And when He gave
Unto our land the life we honor now,
He had a plan.

The times were ripe;
Men's troubled hearts cried out for one to lead,
One staunch and true,
And then arose
This human soul who fathered his great flock
As God would do.

Men clung on him
As the soft, white snow clings to the leafless trees
When Winter reigns;
His sorrows weighed
As the frosted down weights deep each naked bough
Which bends, sustains.

He knew men's hearts,
And, knowing them, he had no eyes for shame,
But saw their best;
His own great soul
Oft groaned in solitude for those he knew
Were sore oppressed.

When Strife's sharp claws
Had torn the States as wild-cats rend their prey,
He soothed each wound;
His was the hand
That loosed the shackles from a subject race,
The blacks unbound.

His spirit proved
That man is more than simply moulded dust;
He mirrored God;
And angels wept
With finite men when he was laid at rest
Beneath the sod.





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