Statue of Abraham Lincoln: Hearings ... on H.R. 11079, 11443, Etc. April 2, 19201920 - 52 páginas |
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Abraham Lincoln Ann Rutledge appropriation artistic Arts Commission B. B. French base bill Black Hawk War boat buildings and grounds cabin Capitol CHAIRMAN CHINDBLOM city hall city of Washington coln commissioners committee Court House Building courthouse death District of Columbia elected Elliott Woods erected feet in height FESS front GILLEN going GRAHAM GRAND MASTER grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln Burial heard House of Representatives Illinois Indiana John JOHNSON Judiciary Park JUNIOR GRAND WARDEN Kentucky KING Lincoln Burial Grounds Lincoln City Lincoln statue lived located Lot Flannery LUCE LUHRING matter mayor mittee Moline Monument Association N. D. Larner Nancy Hanks Lincoln National Noyes o'clock pedestal pioneer RAINEY reerected removal resolution Richard Wallach Riggs Salem Sangamon River secretary SENIOR GRAND Spencer County statue of Abraham statue of Lincoln stood Thomas Lincoln tion United walks
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Página 38 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, and gathering tears and tremblings of distress, and cheeks all pale, which, but an an hour ago, blushed at the praise of their own loveliness ; and there were sudden partings, such as press the life from out young hearts, and choking sighs which ne'er might be repeated...
Página 39 - UNVEIL thy bosom, faithful tomb ; Take this new treasure to thy trust, And give these sacred relics room To slumber in the silent dust. 2 Nor pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear Invade thy bounds ; no mortal woes Can reach the peaceful sleeper here. While angels watch the soft repose. 3 So Jesus slept ; God's dying Son...
Página 38 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Página 16 - And playmates loved so well. Where many were, but few remain Of old familiar things; But seeing them, to mind again The lost and absent brings. The friends I left that parting day, How changed, as time has sped ! Young childhood grown, strong manhood gray, And half of all are dead. I hear the loved survivors tell How nought from death could save, Till every sound appears a knell, And every spot a grave. I range the fields with pensive tread, And pace the hollow rooms, And feel (companion of the dead)...
Página 38 - Lay their bulwarks on the brine ; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line ; It was ten of April morn by the chime : As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath, For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. ' Hearts of oak,
Página 16 - Twixt earth and paradise, Where things decayed and loved ones lost In dreamy shadows rise.
Página 8 - At the time of, her marriage to Thomas Lincoln, Nancy was in her twenty-third year. She was above the ordinary height in stature, weighed about 130 pounds, was slenderly built, and had much the appearance of one inclined to consumption. Her skin was dark; hair dark brown; eyes gray and small; forehead prominent; face sharp and angular, with a marked expression of melancholy which fixed itself in the memory of everyone who ever saw or knew her.
Página 15 - I was raised, where my mother and only sister were buried, and from which I had been absent about fifteen years. That part of the country is, within itself, as unpoetical as any spot of the earth; but still, seeing it and its objects and inhabitants aroused feelings in me which were certainly poetry; though whether my expression of those feelings is poetry is quite another question.
Página 33 - ... use ; but we, as free and accepted masons, are taught to make use of it for the more noble and glorious purpose of divesting our...
Página 16 - Near twenty years have passed away Since here I bid farewell To woods and fields, and scenes of play, And playmates loved so well. Where many were, but few remain Of old familiar things; But seeing them to mind again The lost and absent brings. The friends I left that parting day, How changed, as time has sped!