Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Death, the Law of Life: A Discourse, Delivered on the Sunday Morning After the Murder of President Lincoln, in the Meeting-House of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, April 16th, 1865
My heart is awed within me when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on, In silence, round me, - the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Forever. Lo all grow old and die; but see again, How on the faltering footsteps of decay Youth presses, - ever gay and beautiful youth In all its beautiful forms. These lofty trees Wave not less proudly than their ancestors Moulder beneath them.
Life mocks the idle hate Of his arch enemy Death, -yea, seats himself Upon the tyrant's throne, - the sepulchre And of the triumphs of his ghastly foe Makes his own nourishment.
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