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Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809

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  • Title: Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809
  • Date: 12 February 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00094
  • Source: New York Herald 12 February 1888: 12. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm copy of an original issue. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the periodical poems, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang April Lambert Susan Belasco
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 20 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00094.xml (TEI)
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN (BORN FEB. 12, 1809).1

To-day from each and all, a breath of prayer, a 
  pulse of thought, To memory of Him—to birth of Him. WALT WHITMAN.

Notes

1. Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). [back]

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