 | Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 pages
...lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet. Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you? Yes; he had lived to shame me from my sneer,...peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men. * This tribute appeared in the London " Punch," which, up to the time of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln,... | |
 | William Goodell Frost - 1891 - 50 pages
...: "Beside this corpse that bears for winding sheet The stars and stripes he lived to rear anew, 33 Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer. To lame...peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men." Foreign nations were now prompt to recognize his merits. But more significant than official acts were... | |
 | Readers - 1891 - 204 pages
...lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you ? Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil and confute my pen ; To make me owa this hind, of princes peer, This rail-splitter, a true-born king of men. My shallow judgment I... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...lived to re;ir anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet. Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you? "Yes; he had lived to shame me from my sneer,...own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter true-born king of men. "My shallow judgment I had learned to rue, Noting how to occasion.s height he... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...anew, Between the mourners at his bead and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you T "Ye8; he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my...own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter true-born king of men. "My shallow judgment I had learned to rue, Noting how to occasion's height he... | |
 | William A. Spicer - United States - 1892 - 432 pages
...lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at the head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you? Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer,...my pencil, and confute my pen, To make me own this kind of princes peer, This rail-splitter, a true-born king of men! " Resuming, HT Chace wrote : "June... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 464 pages
...is there roon, for you? Yee, he had lived to sname me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confuto my pen — To make me own this hind of princes peer,...learnt to rue, Noting how to occasion's height he ruse, How hie quaint wit made home-truth seem more trae, How, iron-like, his temper grew by blows.... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you? "Yes; he had lived to shame me from my sneer,...own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter true born king of men. "My shallow judgment I had learned to rue, Noting how to occasion's height he... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you ? "Yes; he had lived to shame me from my sneer,...pen ; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitlcr true-born king of men. "My shallow judgment I had learned to rue, Noting how to occasion's... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 410 pages
...also to Shirley Brooks. It was originally published in Punch, London, May 6, 1865. Yes ; he had liv'd to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and...a true-born king of men. My shallow judgment I had learn'd to rue, Noting how to occasion's height he rose; How his quaint wit made home-truth seem more... | |
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Beside this corpse, that bears for winding-sheet The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you? Yes: he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute... 
