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Title: Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: February 12, 1888
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, and Susan Belasco
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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,
pulse of thought,
To memory of Him—to birth of Him.
WALT WHITMAN.