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(On the Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth)
Father, Father Abraham, / Today look on us from above;
On us, the offspring of thy faith, / The children of thy Christ-like love.
For that which we have humbly wrought, / Give us today thy kindly smile;
Wherein we've failed or fallen short, / Bear with us, Father, yet awhile.
Father, Father Abraham, / Today we lift our hearts to thee, / Filled with the thought of what great price / Was paid, that we might ransomed be.
Today we consecrate ourselves / Anew in hand and heart and brain, / To send this judgment down the years: / The ransom was not paid in vain.