Read the Junior Classics
On the Life-Mask of Abraham Lincoln
Grade 7
Poem
by R. W. Gilder
Volume: 10 | Page: 320
Estimated reading time: 1 minute
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Reading ModeHIS bronze doth keep the very form and THIS bron
Of our great martyr's face. Yes, this is he:
That brow all wisdom, all benignity;
That human, humorous mouth; those cheeks that
hold
Like some harsh landscape all the summer's gold;
That spirit fit for sorrow, as the sea
For storms to beat on; the lone agony
THE LIGHT BRIGADE
Those silent patient lips too well foretold.
Yes, this is he who ruled a world of men
As might some prophet of the elder dayBrooding above the tempest and the fray With deep-eyed thought and more than mortal ken.
Apower was his beyond the touch of art Or armëd strength-his pure and mighty heart.