a pilot made upon the New World's stream.

Their work is done, but ere they crossed "the portal,"
One, Song; One, Truth; One, Freedom; Made Immortal!

James Phinney Baxter, born at Gorham Maine, March 23, 1831. Academic
education; President of Savings Bank; Mayor of Portland, six terms,
1893-97--1904-5. Organized Associated Charities and was its first
President; built and donated to the City of Portland its public
library in 1888, and to Gorham in 1907; also conveyed to Gorham his
family mansion for use as a Museum. President Portland Public Library,
Baxter Library (Gorham), Portland Benevolent Society, Overseer of
Bowdoin College, President Maine Historical Society since 1890,
Northeast Historical Society since 1899. Author: _The Trelawney
Papers_, 1884; _The British Invasion From the North_, 1887; _Sir
Ferdinando Gorges and His Province of Maine_, 1890; _The Pioneers of
New France in New England_, 1894; edited ten volumes of _Documentary
History of Maine_, etc.

THE NATAL DAY OF LINCOLN

Son of the Western World! whose heritage
Was the vast prairie and the boundless sky;
Whose callow thoughts with wings untrammeled sought
Free scope for growth denied to Ease and Power,
Naught couldst thou know of place or precedent,
For Freedom's ichor with thy mother's milk
Coursing thy veins, would render thee immune
To Fashion's dictate, or prescriptive creed,
Leaving thy soul unhindered to expand
Like Samuel's in Jehovah's tutelage.
Hail to thy Natal day!

Like all great souls with vision unobscured
Thou wert by Pride unswayed, and so didst tread
The gray and sombre way by Duty marked;
Seeking the springs of Wisdom, unallured
By shallower sources which the witless tempt.
Afar o'er arid plains didst thou behold
An empty sky, and mountains desolate
Barring thy way to fairer scenes beyond;
But faith was thine, and patience measureless,
Making thee equal to thy destiny.
Hail to thy Natal day!

It summons to our vision all thy life,
Of strenuous toil; the cabin low and rude;
The meagre fare; the blazing logs whose glow
Illumed the pages of inspired bards,
Shakespeare and Bunyan; prophets, priests and seers;
The da