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Lists of the greatest U.S. presi-* dents always begin with George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.
Both Were born in February — Washington, Who pi*e6ided over the birth of this nation, on February 21, and Lincoln, who saw to it that the Civil War didn’t permanently splinter the Union, on February 12.
In honor of these two giants of American history, Richard Pierson of Amissville delivered copies of the following poems to the Rappahannock News. The first was written by Lincoln when the Great Emancipator was 37 years old. The second was penned by William Cullen Bryant for Washington’s birthday in 1878.
MEMORY My childhood’s home I see again,
And sadden with the view; And still, as memory crowds my brain,
There’s pleasure in it, too.
0 memory! thou midway world
Twixt earth and paradise, Where things decayed and loved ones lost
In dreamy shadows rise,
And, freed from all that’s earthly, vile,
Seem hallowed, pure and bright, Like scenes in some enchanted isle
All bathed in liquid light.
As dusky mountains please the eye
When twilight chases day; As bugle notes that, passing by,
In distance die away;
As, leaving some grand waterfall, We, lingering, list its roar— So memory will hallow all We’ve known but know no more.
Near twenty years have passed away
Since here I bid farewell To woods and fields, and scenes of play, And playmates loved so well.
Where many were, but few remain Of old familiar things,
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