LINCOLN & Other Poems

Note

Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time. The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City. The poem “The New Century” was read at the Manhattan Labor Dinner given January first, 1901.

The Mighty Hundred Years

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II

III

Dreyfus

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II

A Guard of the Sepulchre

Behold, some of the watch came into the city and told unto the Chief Priests all the things that were come to pass, and ... they gave large money unto the soldiers, saying: Say, His disciples came by night and stole Him away while we slept.—Matthew.

The Song of the Shepherds

And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen.—Luke.