Lord.

Not for thy sheaves nor savannas
Crown we thee, proud Illinois!
Here in his grave is thy grandeur;
Born of his sorrow thy joy.
Only the tomb by Mount Zion,
Hewn for the Lord, do we hold
Dearer than his in thy prairies,
Girdled with harvests of gold!
Still for the world through the ages
Wreathing with glory his brow,
He shall be Liberty's Saviour;
Freedom's Jerusalem thou!

[Illustration: STATUE OF LINCOLN

In Lincoln Park, Washington, D. C. Thomas Ball, sculptor.]

The first contribution of five dollars for the statue in Lincoln Park,
Washington, D. C., was made by a colored woman named Charlotte Scott,
of Marietta, Ohio, the morning after the assassination of President
Lincoln, and the entire cost of said monument, amounting to $17,000,
was paid by subscriptions of colored people. It was unveiled April 14,
1876.

James Russell Lowell, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 22,
1819. He received his degree in 1838, at Harvard, and his first
production was a class poem which was delivered on that date. He was
successor of Professor Longfellow in the chair of Modern Languages at
Harvard College. In 1877 he was appointed by President Hayes to the
Spanish Mission, from which he was transferred in 1880 to the Court of
St. James. A long list of poetical works have been published to his
credit. He died August 12, 1891.

COMMEMORATION ODE

Life may be given in many ways,
And loyalty to Truth be sealed
As bravely in the closet as the field,
So bountiful is Fate;
But then to stand beside her,
When craven churls deride her,
To front a lie in arms and not to yield,
This shows, methinks, God's plan
And measures of a stalwart man,
Limbed like the old heroic breeds,
Who stand self-poised on manhood's solid earth;
Not forced to frame excuses for his birth,
Fed from within with all the strength he needs.

Such was he, our Martyr-Chief,
Whom late the Nation he had led,
With ashes on her head,
Wept wi