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                   [Illustration: (Frontispiece)

           PRESIDENT LINCOLN, Photograph by Brady, 1864]




                                The
                           Poets' Lincoln

                      TRIBUTES IN VERSE TO THE
                         MARTYRED PRESIDENT


                           _Selected by_

                         OSBORN H. OLDROYD

          AUTHOR OF "THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN"
                AND EDITOR OF THE "WORDS OF LINCOLN"

                  _With many portraits of Lincoln,
                      illustrations of events
                         in his life, etc._


                     PUBLISHED BY THE EDITOR AT
                   "THE HOUSE WHERE LINCOLN DIED"

                         WASHINGTON, D. C.

                                1915


                          Copyright 1915,
                        by OSBORN H. OLDROYD




ACKNOWLEDGMENT


The Editor is most grateful to the various authors who have willingly
given their consent to the use of their respective poems in the
compilation of this volume. It has been a somewhat difficult problem,
not only to select the more appropriate productions, but also to find
the names of their authors, for in his Lincoln collection there are
many hundreds of poems which have appeared from time to time in
magazines, newspapers and other productions, some of which are
accompanied by more than one name as author of the same poem. In a
number of instances it has been difficult to ascertain the name of the
actual owner of the copyright, the poems having been printed in so
many forms without the copyright mark attached.

The Editor in particular extends his grateful acknowledgment to the
Houghton Mifflin Company for permission to reprint the "Emancipation
Group" by John G. Whittier; the "Life Mask" by Richard Watson Gilder;
"The Hand of Lincoln" by Clarence Stedman; "Commemoration O