The Bibelot

VOLUME X

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From The Bibelot, A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known, Volume X, Testimonial Edition, Edited and Originally Published by Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine; Wm. Wise & Co.; New York; 1904; p. 247.

VIII. MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN BY WALT WHITMAN.

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IV.

THIS DUST WAS ONCE THE MAN.

THIS 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.

VIII. MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN BY WALT WHITMAN.

IV.

THIS DUST WAS ONCE THE MAN.

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