Author: Mary Wright-DavisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332525461
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Excerpt from The Book of Lincoln Leaders of Men When they are dead, we heap the laurels high Above them, where indifferent they lie; We join their deeds to unaccustomed praise And crown with garlands of immortal bays Whom, living, we but thought to crucify. As mountains seem less glorious, viewed too nigh, So often do the great whom we decry Gigantic loom to our astonished gaze, When they are dead. For, shamed by largeness, littlenesses die; And, partisan and narrow hates put by, We shrine our heroes for the future days, And to atone our ignorant delays With fond and emulous devotion try, When they are dead! Florence Earle Coates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.