Rebel Verses

<h2><SPAN name="Oh_Lincoln_City_of_my_dreams" id="Oh_Lincoln_City_of_my_dreams"></SPAN>Oh, Lincoln, City of my dreams</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">As far away as childhood seems<br/></span> <span class="i0">Thou standest on thy Roman hill,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And memory holds thee frozen, still,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Engraved on steel where moonlight streams.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">For leagues along the landscape mild<br/></span> <span class="i0">Thy towers twin the scene command,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Embattlements of fairyland;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Romance incarnate to a child.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Though other cities cast a spell,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Ever thou holdst my heart in chains;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And still I hear across the plains<br/></span> <span class="i0">At midnight's stroke that ancient bell<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Whose giant throbbing scarcely seems<br/></span> <span class="i0">A mortal sound at Heaven's gate:<br/></span> <span class="i0">It echoes round the exile's fate&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Oh Lincoln! City of my dreams!<br/></span> <span class="pagenum">[61]</span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />