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Leaves of Grass
1891
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This Dust Was Once the Man.
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MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
THIS DUST WAS ONCE THE MAN.
T
HIS
dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of these States.
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Previous Poem: Hush'd Be the Camps to-Day.
Table of Contents (1891–1892)
Next Poem: By Blue Ontario's Shore.
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MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
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