Anonymous, “Lincoln” (1903)
Thy record is on high.
Thy soul,which here communed with God
Lives with him in the sky!
Thy tomb shall be the shrine to which
More pilgrim feet shall turn,
Than to Mount Vernon's sacred shades
Or Moslem Prophet's Urn!
Rest!while the work by thee begun
Shall sweep its widening way
And chains and manacles shall burst
And crowns and thrones decay!
While onward through the ages vast
The Freedom song shall swell
And earth's millennial morn shall haste
Rest, Lincoln, rest! Farewell!
-From S. W. Christian Advocate.
Published in Colored American Magazine, February 1903