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ATION GROUP Amidst thy sacred effigies Of old renown give place, O city. Freedom-loved! to his Whose hand unchained a race. Take the worn frame, that rested not Save in a martyr's grave; The care-lined face, that none forgot, Bent to the kneeling slave. Let man be free! The mighty word He spoke was not his own; An impulse from the Highest stirred These chiseled lips alone. The cloudy sign, the fiery guide, Along his pathway ran, And Nature, through his voice, denied The ownership of man. We rest in peace where these sad eyes Saw peril, strife, and pain; His was the Nation's sacrifice, And ours the priceless gain. O symbol of God's will on earth As it is done above Bear witness to the cost and worth Of justice and of love! Stand in thy place and testify To coming ages long, That truth is stronger than a lie, And righteousness than wrong. [Illustration: PRESIDENT LINCOLN Photograph by Brady, Washington, D. C., 1863] Theron Brown, born at Willimantic, Connecticut, April 29, 1832. Graduated at Hartford Theological Seminary in 1858; Newton Theological Institution, 1859. Ordained in Baptist Ministry, 1859; Pastor South Framingham, Massachusetts, 1859-62; Canton, Massachusetts, 1863-70; on staff _Youth's Companion_ since 1870. Author various juvenile stories; _Life Songs_ (poems), 1894; _Nameless Women of the Bible_, 1904; _The Story of the Hymns and Tunes_, 1907; _Under the Mulberry Tree_ (a novel), 1909; _The Birds of God_, 1911. He died February 14, 1914. THE LIBERATOR When, scornful of a nation's rest, The angry horns of Discord blew There came a giant from the West, And found a giant's work to do. He saw, in sorrow--and in wrath-- A mighty empire in its strait, Torn like a planet i
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