Author: Emma HardingePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333497132
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Excerpt from The Great Funeral Oration on Abraham Lincoln It seems to me as if I heard a tone, borne on the wings of time and sounding through the corridors of space, sweeping the earth lilse a breeze, from the shores of the remotest East to this land of the distant West - a voice that for eighteen hundred vears has pleaded before the throne of Almightv Justice in the onlv strain that can solve the dire and dreadful problem of red murder saying, Father, forgive them, {key 1.7m; not what they do. Friends, this voice most surely speaks, both to vou and me. In this hour of awful grief. There seems no Other utterance fit to explain its meaning, or able to pronounce sentence on the terrible cause of pain that af icts us in this most unparalleled and sublime national woe. I recall the page of history in vain to find any prece dent (save the one which laid the foundations of your re ligion) for this foul and monstrous act of guilt which forms the record of this solemn hour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
