McKinley Assassination Ink: A Documentary History of William McKinley's Assassination

Publication information

Source: Minneapolis Journal
Source type: newspaper
Document type: poem
Document title: “The Dead President”
Author(s): Burton, Richard
City of publication: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date of publication: 14 September 1901
Volume number: none
Issue number: none
Part/Section: 2
Pagination: 16

Citation

Burton, Richard. “The Dead President.” Minneapolis Journal 14 Sept. 1901: part 2, p. 16.

Transcription

full text

Keywords

McKinley assassination (poetry).

Named persons

none.

Notes

“University of Minnesota, Sept. 14, 1901” (p. 16).

The author’s name is given as “Rich’d Burton.”

Document

The Dead President

A mighty land, moved in her soul to tears,
Hung on the heart-beats of a man, whose brow
Had dauntless braved the perils of the past
And led the people from the place of fears

Into the peace and promise of the Now.
A dastard struck: the great heart strove its best,
Then fluttered, stilled; like any child at rest
He lay, and knew God’s purposes, at last.

To our blind sight, O Lord, thy ways seem stern:
But surely (as the dark before the day)
The Children of the Pit must flee away;
By such grim lessons must the Nation learn.

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