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Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 04/15/03 07:11:27 PM
Categorized as Media.

Abraham Lincoln Died This Day, April 15, 1865

"What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against our liberties, without making us stronger or weaker for the struggle. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage, and you are preparing your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of those around you, you have lost the genius of your own independence, and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises."

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
from Speech at Edwardsville IL, September 11, 1858
Collected Works III 95

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 04/15/03 07:41:44 AM
Categorized as Historical & Social/Cultural.

John Donne: Holy Sonnets XVI

Father, part of his double interest
Unto thy kingdome, thy Sonne gives to mee,
His joynture in the knottie Trinitie,
Hee keepes, and gives to me his deaths conquest.
This Lambe, whose death, with life the world hath blest,
Was from the worlds beginning slaine, and he
Hath made two Wills, which with the Legacie
Of his and thy kingdome, doe thy Sonnes invest,
Yet such are thy laws, that men argue yet
Whether a man those statutes can fulfill;
None doth; but all-healing grace and spirit
Revive againe what law and letter kill.
Thy lawes abridgement, and thy last command
Is all but love; Oh let this last Will stand!

[The Complete English Poems, ed. C. A. Patrides, pp. 444f.]

(See also modernized.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 04/15/03 07:35:36 AM
Categorized as Literary & Religious.