In Chaim Potok's The Chosen, Reuven compares Danny to this figure when he first visits him in the hospital.  In one poem, this figure is "slow to smite and swift to spare/ Gentle and merciful and just!", while he is "not forced to frame excuses for his birth/ Fed from within by all the strength he needs" in a poem by James Russell Lowell.  This person "came when days were perilous/And hearts of men were sore beguiled" in Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem "The Master."   He "will not rest/ near the old courthouse pacing up and down," in a poem in which he "Walks at Midnight," while in a more famous poem, he has "fallen cold and dead" even though "the ship has weathered every rack/ The prize we sought is won." FTP, name this man who is twice re
In Chaim Potok's The Chosen, Reuven compares Danny to this figure when he first visits him in the hospital.  In one poem, this figure is "slow to smite and swift to spare/ Gentle and merciful and just!", while he is "not forced to frame excuses for his birth/ Fed from within by all the strength he needs" in a poem by James Russell Lowell.  This person "came when days were perilous/And hearts of men were sore beguiled" in Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem "The Master."   He "will not rest/ near the old courthouse pacing up and down," in a poem in which he "Walks at Midnight," while in a more famous poem, he has "fallen cold and dead" even though "the ship has weathered every rack/ The prize we sought is won." FTP, name this man who is twice referred to as "captain" in the title of an elegy by Walt Whitman, the 16th President of the United States.
In Chaim Potok's The Chosen, Reuven compares Danny to this figure when he first visits him in the hospital.  
Abraham Lincoln