Congressional Gold Medal
Awarded since 1776, the Congressional Gold Medal is a United States award given by vote of two-thirds of Congress in recognition of distinguished achievements or contributions. The design of the medal itself usually differs between recipients.
External link
- List of recipients (http://clerk.house.gov/histHigh/Congressional_History/goldMedal.php)
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Inwardly quivering
Of unheard music, yet
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Of those who reverent watch the train of death;
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Of far-off meanings; and the people come
Drawn by an eloquence
Than that wherewith he shook
Of sober lightning cleft the knotty growth
Uplifted, lit with peace, truth's buds might shoot,
The light that late forsook
Mysteriously yet
On brows of them, the great and wise,
Who, with looks of strange repose,
Him to follow to his grave.
Yet, with baffled longing brave,
That gulf our lonely life around.
What immortality
Sumner, all our brave and good
For in distant Auburn.
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