Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lincoln, the World's Noblest Hero: An Address Delivered by Hannah M. Fisher, M.D., At the Commencement of Lincoln Memorial University, June 3, 1930, Harrogate, Tennessee
And pour to nothing down the hollow sky; But thou shalt live, and mount from height to height. From throne to throne in everlasting light.
All lands are thine, no race nor tribe nor breed Shall claim thee nor shall circumscribe thy trust, But all shall drop, wherever hearts shall bleed, Devotion's tear above thy hallowed dust. The sons of glory glitter for a day; The Victor's arch and trumpet have their hour, Then pass like twilight at the close of day, But thou shalt evermore augment thy power, Because in every truth - enlightened breast The conscience of the world has 'made thee guest.
Ah, it was Love that made thee wonderful! And a vast pity for the recreant race; A scripture of the heart so deep, so full It filled with beauty thy melancholy face. Upon thy hands the dark and sober soil, Deep Spread along the ways of lowliness; Upon thy brow the honest sweat of toil, And in thy spirit all the world's distress; So didst thou heal deep wounds - deep wounds and sore, And men stood up whose heads had dropped before.
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