LINCOLN
Gleason, Arthur H.
Lincoln By ARTHUR H. GLEASON In the February American Magazine WHEN the sons of men go forth to war they have never lacked their leader. For sailing the un-plumbed sea, and daring the rim of the...
...He craves some great companion who is acquainted with his grief...
...Men became strong to endure, for love lay waiting at the end, nor were they hopeless in defeat when pity enfolded their striving...
...In him once more had the heart that lies hidden behind this vain show of things released its infinite yearning into the world of men...
...He suffered even as we from the scorn of the proud, the sudden blows of fate, the silent wear of time and chance...
...Deeper than his high courage and adventurous quest lies his immemorial heartache, the price he pays for being finer than his imperfect world, larger than his destiny, more sensitive than his environment...
...Great captains have there been for all these moods of man, adventurous, militant, intrepid...
...One of them was the...
...He came to the common folk...
...He is of us, by that strange guise, marred face, untutored way...
...Once more had something out of the mystery so loved the world...
...He suffers because all that is excellent in him is troubled with the human spectacle, the almost universal sadness of things, the injustice done his mates...
...But in man's deepest need he goes unled and disconsolate...
...For sailing the un-plumbed sea, and daring the rim of the world, there are gentlemen a-plenty to take the trail...
...Once and again in history have men felt themselves in a presence luminous with pity and love, who answered this cry of their being...
...man whom our country knew in its anguish...
...He overspread a continent with his pity...
...One more such man—and we throw off hate and base desire, and create a world that would make that lonely heart at home...
Vol. 3 • April 1911 • No. 6
