ein, from setting sun to setting sun
No thought of deed of bitterness was done.
"Day of the Truce of God!" Be this day ours,
Until perpetual peace flows like a river
And hopes as fragrant as these tribute flowers
Fill all the land forever and forever!

[Illustration: PRESIDENT LINCOLN

Photograph by Brady, Washington, D. C.]

Hermann Hagedorn, born in New York, July 18, 1882. Instructor in
English at Harvard in 1909-1911. Wrote several one-act plays which
were produced by the Harvard Dramatic Club, and by clubs of other
colleges. Author of _The Silver Blade_ (a play in verse), _The Woman
of Corinth_, _A Troop of the Guard_ and other poems.

OH, PATIENT EYES!

Oh, patient eyes! oh, bleeding, mangled heart!
Oh, hero, whose wide soul, defying chains,
Swept at each army's head,
Swept to the charge and bled,
Gathering in one too sorrow-laden heart
All woes, all pains;
The anguish of the trusted hope that wanes,
The soldier's wound, the lonely mourner's smart.
He knew the noisy horror of the fight,
From dawn to dusk and through the hideous night
He heard the hiss of bullets, the shrill scream
Of the wide-arching shell,
Scattering at Gettysburg or by Potomac's stream,
Like summer flowers, the pattering rain of death;
With every breath,
He tasted battle and in every dream,
Trailing like mists from gaping walls of hell,
He heard the thud of heroes as they fell.

[Illustration: PRESIDENT LINCOLN

Photograph by Brady]

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, born at New Rochelle, New York, February
22, 1838. Educated privately, chiefly in New York. Became contributor
to leading periodicals; also editor of _Hearth and Home_, 1871-73;
_Christian at Work_, 1873-79; _The Christian Intelligencer_ since
1879; postmistress _Harper's Young People_, 1882-89; editor _Harper's
Bazar_, 1889-99; staff contributor _Christian Herald_ since 1894;
_Ladies' Home Journal_, 1899-1905; _Woman's Home Companion_ since
1905. Author _Poems of the Household_; _Home Fairies and Heart
Flowers_; _On the Road Home_; _Easter Bells_; _Winsome Womanhood_;
_Little K