<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373950" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>William H. Herndon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There by the window in the old house<br>Perched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley,<br>My days of labor closed, sitting out life's decline,<br>Day by day did I look in my memory,<br>As one who gazes in an enchantress' crystal globe,<br>And I saw the figures of the past,<br>As if in a pageant glassed by a shining dream,<br>Move through the incredible sphere of time.<br>And I saw a man arise from the soil like a fabled giant<br>And throw himself over a deathless destiny,<br>Master of great armies, head of the republic,<br>Bringing together into a dithyramb of recreative song<br>The epic hopes of a people;<br>At the same time Vulcan of sovereign fires,<br>Where imperishable shields and swords were beaten out<br>From spirits tempered in heaven.<br>Look in the crystal! See how he hastens on<br>To the place where his path comes up to the path<br>Of a child of Plutarch and Shakespeare.<br>O Lincoln, actor indeed, playing well your part,<br>And Booth, who strode in a mimic play within the play,<br>Often and often I saw you,<br>As the cawing crows winged their way to the wood<br>Over my house-top at solemn sunsets,<br>There by my window,<br>Alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</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=373950" data-title="William H. Herndon de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="There by the window in the old house Perched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley, My days of labor closed, sitting out life's decline, Day by day did I look in my memory, As one who gazes in an enchantress' crystal globe, And I saw the figur..."></div> </div> </div>

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