Fifty Years & Other Poems/Father, Father Abraham

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Father, Father Abraham

(On the Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth)

Father, Father Abraham, To-day look on us from above;On us, the offspring of thy faith, The children of thy Christ-like love.
For that which we have humbly wrought, Give us to-day thy kindly smile;Wherein we've failed or fallen short, Bear with us, Father, yet awhile.
Father, Father Abraham, To-day we lift our hearts to thee,Filled with the thought of what great price Was paid, that we might ransomed be.
To-day we consecrate ourselves Anew in hand and heart and brain,To send this judgment down the years: The ransom was not paid in vain.
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