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Photos from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution referenced from 'Reconsidering the Man from Illinois' by Rothstein in the NY Times, 2008.
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This bronze doth keep the very forma d mold
Of our great martyr's face. Yes, this is he:
That brow of all wisdom, all benigity;
That human, humorous mouth; those cheeks that hold
Like some harsh landscape all the summer's gold;
That spirit fit for sorrow, as the sea
For storms to beat on; the lone agony
Those silent, patient lips too well foretold.
Yes, this is he who ruled a world of men
As might some prophet of the elder day, --
Brooding above the tempest and the fray
With deep-eyed thought and more than mortal ken.
A power was his beyond the touch of art
Or armed strength: It was his mighty heart.
Richard Watson Gilder, 1886
