Go back to God as white as you came,
The kingliest warrior born.
—Copyright by Harr Wagner Co., San Francisco, and used by kind permission.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT
[IN SPRINGFIELD, ILL.]
By Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
It is portentous, and a thing of state
That here at midnight, in our little town
A mourning figure walks, and will not rest,
Near the old courthouse pacing up and down.
Or by his homestead, or in shadowed yards