Photograph by Brady, Washington, D. C.] Hermann Hagedorn, born in New York, July 18, 1882. Instructor in English at Harvard in 1909-1911. Wrote several one-act plays which were produced by the Harvard Dramatic Club, and by clubs of other colleges. Author of _The Silver Blade_ (a play in verse), _The Woman of Corinth_, _A Troop of the Guard_ and other poems. OH, PATIENT EYES! Oh, patient eyes! oh, bleeding, mangled heart! Oh, hero, whose wide soul, defying chains, Swept at each army's head, Swept to the charge and bled, Gathering in one too sorrow-laden heart All woes, all pains; The anguish of the trusted hope that wanes, The soldier's wound, the lonely mourner's smart. He knew the noisy horror of the fight, From dawn to dusk and through the hideous night He heard the hiss of bullets, the shrill scream Of the wide-arching shell, Scattering at Gettysburg or by Potomac's stream, Like summer flowers, the pattering rain of death; With every breath, He tasted battle and in every dream, Trailing like mists from gaping walls of hell, He heard the thud of heroes as they fell. [Illustration: PRESIDENT LINCOLN Photograph by Brady] Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, born at New Rochelle, New York, February 22, 1838. Educated privately, chiefly in New York. Became contributor to leading periodicals; also editor of _Hearth and Home_, 1871-73; _Christian at Work_, 1873-79; _The Christian Intelligencer_ since 1879; postmistress _Harper's Young People_, 1882-89; editor _Harper's Bazar_, 1889-99; staff contributor _Christian Herald_ since 1894; _Ladies' Home Journal_, 1899-1905; _Woman's Home Companion_ since 1905. Author _Poems of the Household_; _Home Fairies and Heart Flowers_; _On the Road Home_; _Easter Bells_; _Winsome Womanhood_; _Little Knights and Ladies_; _Lyrics of Love_; _When Angels Come to Men_; _Good Manners for All Occasions_; _The Story Bible_; _Fairest Girlhood_; _From My Youth Up_; _Happy School Days_. She died June 4, 1912. ABRAHAM LINCOLN (_February 12, 1809-1909_) Child of the boundless prairie, son of the virgin soil, Heir to the bearing of burdens, brother to them that toil; God and Nature together shaped him to lead in the van, In the stress of her wildest weather when the Nation needed a Man. Eyes of a smoldering fire, heart of a lion at bay, Patience to plan for tomorrow, valor to serve for today, Mournful and mirthful and tender, quick as a flash with a jest, Hiding with gibe and great laughter the ache that was dull in his breast.