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AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH

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First Line: SLOW POTOMAC, TARNISHED WATER
Last Line: TO SCOUR THE HATE CLEAN AND THE RUSTED BLOOD
Subject(s): LINCOLN MEMORIAL, WASHINGTON, D.C.;
Full Poem Text Available at
http://www.mocavo.com/Congressional-Record-Volume-108-8/539305/954


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