A VOICE FROM SPAIN.
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A VOICE FROM SPAIN.
Ode to Abraham Lincoln.
Translated from the Spanish of Carolina Coronado de Perry, by Martha Perry Lowe.
LINCOLN, I salute thee! conqueror thou art.Chosen of the people's heart.Traversing the mighty billows o'er Of the wondrous, awful sea, From America the free,Thou hast reached unto this far-off Spanish shore.
Glorious exemplar of the Christian calling, I have beard thy accents falling,Heard thee raise thy voice against the tyrants' cause. So the genius of the great, Sovereign people of the State,May preserve the volume of its sacred laws.
Wondrous book—the admiration of the ages! In those solitudes, the pagesFrom the lofty soul of Washington were born—
