<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116420" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Death of Lincoln</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare,<br>Gentle and merciful and just!<br>Who, in the fear of God, didst bear<br>The sword of power, a nation's trust!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In sorrow by thy bier we stand,<br>Amid the awe that hushes all,<br>And speak the anguish of a land<br>That shook with horror at thy fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy task is done; the bond of free;<br>We bear thee to an honored grave,<br>Whose proudest monument shall be<br>The broken fetters of the slave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pure was thy life; its bloody close<br>Hath placed thee with the sons of light,<br>Among the noble host of those<br>Who perished in the cause of Right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cullen+Bryant">William Cullen Bryant</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116420" data-title="The Death of Lincoln de William Cullen Bryant" data-description="Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare,/Gentle and merciful and just!/Who, in the fear of God, didst bear/The sword of power, a nation's trust!/In sorrow by thy bier we stand,/Amid the awe that hushes all,/And speak the anguish of a land/That shook ..."></div> </div> </div>

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