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...of England's great laureate — written thirty years ago — in which he traces the upward steps of some ' Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate...grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blow of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; ' Who makes by force his merit known, And lives...

...is aptly described in the words of England's great laureate, in which he traces the upward steps of some "' Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate...village green. "' Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, u ' Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys,— To mould a mighty State's...

...thon look back m, what hath been As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began -Vnd ou a simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious...the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstauce, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch...

..."FEOM HIGH TO HIGHER" ' ' BY MRS. EW ALLDERDICE. OVER THE HILL TO THE WHITE HOUSE, AND OUR PRESIDENT. "As some divinely gifted man. Whose life in low estate...on a simple village green; Who breaks his birth's insidious bar. And grasps the skirts of happy chance. And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples...

...to the Presidency, have a new and melancholy interest and significance now. He was, indeed, — Aa some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate...simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bur, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with...

...from memory to quote in his brief speech, as applicable $o Lincoln, the poet's description of Borne "Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...simple village green, Who breaks his birth's invidious bars, And grasped the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with...

...Translation, 15JO.) "Who breaks his birth's invidious bar And grasps tho skirts of happier chance, Who breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with...his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known, ' Who lives to clutch the golden .keys, To mould a mighty State's decrees And shape the whisper of...

...However, we give them as strangely apposite. " Doat t.li on look back on ,what hath been, As sorao divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green ; Who breaks hia birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance,...

...able from memory to quote in his brief speech, as applicable to Lincoln, the poet's description of some "Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village green, Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys To mould a mighty state's decrees,...