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Life may be given in many ways	A
And loyalty to Truth be sealed	B
As bravely in the closet as the field	B
So bountiful is Fate	C
But then to stand beside her	D
When craven churls deride her	D
To front a lie in arms and not to yield	B
This shows methinks God's plan	E
And measure of a stalwart man	E
Limbed like the old heroic breeds	F
Who stands self poised on manhood's solid earth	G
Not forced to frame excuses for his birth	G
Fed from within with all the strength he needs	F
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Such was he our Martyr Chief	H
Whom late the Nation he had led	I
With ashes on her head	I
Wept with the passion of an angry grief	H
Forgive me if from present things I turn	J
To speak what in my heart will beat and burn	J
And hang my wreath on his world honored urn	J
Nature they say doth dote	K
And cannot make a man	E
Save on some worn out plan	E
Repeating us by rote	K
For him her Old World moulds aside she threw	L
And choosing sweet clay from the breast	M
Of the unexhausted West	M
With stuff untainted shaped a hero new	L
Wise steadfast in the strength of God and true	L
How beautiful to see	N
Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed	O
Who loved his charge but never loved to lead	I
One whose meek flock the people joyed to be	N
Not lured by any cheat of birth	G
But by his clear grained human worth	G
And brave old wisdom of sincerity	N
They knew that outward grace is dust	P
They could not choose but trust	P
In that sure footed mind's unfaltering skill	Q
And supple tempered will	Q
That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust	P
His was no lonely mountain peak of mind	R
Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars	S
A sea mark now now lost in vapors blind	R
Broad prairie rather genial level lined	R
Fruitful and friendly for all human kind	R
Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars	S
Nothing of Europe here	T
Or then of Europe fronting mornward still	Q
Ere any names of Serf and Peer	U
Could Nature's equal scheme deface	V
And thwart her genial will	Q
Here was a type of the true elder race	V
And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face	V
I praise him not it were too late	C
And some innative weakness there must be	N
In him who condescends to victory	N
Such as the Present gives and cannot wait	C
Safe in himself as in a fate	C
So always firmly he	N
He knew to bide his time	W
And can his fame abide	X
Still patient in his simple faith sublime	W
Till the wise years decide	X
Great captains with their guns and drums	Y
Disturb our judgment for the hour	D
But at last silence comes	Y
These all are gone and standing like a tower	D
Our children shall behold his fame	Z
The kindly earnest brave foreseeing man	E
Sagacious patient dreading praise not blame	Z
New birth of our new soil the first American	A2

James Russell Lowell

Abraham Lincoln, From The Ode Recited At The Harvard Commemoration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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