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The martyr of liberty : in memory of President Lincoln / poetry and music by James G. Clark, author of Voice of the army, Let me die with my face to the foe, Moonlight and starlight, Beautiful Annie, &c. &c ...
The Martyr of Liberty. In Memory of President Lincoln.
He's gone from the strife to the home of the weary;
They've borne him away to his own western bowers,
Where the bird and the bee and the rose of the prairie
May remember his grave in the bright summer hours;
He had lived for a world, and a race bowed in sorrow;
And a wail for the dead filled the halls of the free,
But the voice of a world gathered might on the morrow,
And arose like the sound of the sea.
Chorus:
Columbia, come forth from the dark vale of Edom,
All red with the gore of the brave,
Columbia, come forth with thy deep song of Freedom,
Unmar'd by the moan of a slave.
He sleeps in the vale of his dear native river;
His deep voice is hushed on its beautiful shore;
But the bloom of his glory will dwell there forever,
When kings and their crowns are remembered no more;
In the ages to come will his memory linger,
And the light of his councils grow brighter with time;
And his fame be rekindled by mercy's white finger,
When the world is unstained by a crime.