John Vance Cheney on Abraham Lincoln

“Unheralded, God's captain came As one that answers to his name; Nor dreamed how high his charge, His privilege how large.”

“To set the stones back in the wall Lest the divided house should fall. The beams of peace he laid, While kings looked on, afraid.”

“If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?”