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LINCOLN by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY

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First Line: WOULD I MIGHT ROUSE THE LINCOLN IN YOU ALL
Last Line: FIRE THAT FREED THE SLAVE.
Subject(s): LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865); PRESIDENTS, UNITED STATES;
Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all,
That which is gendered in the wilderness
From lonely prairies and God's tenderness.
Imperial soul, star of a weedy stream,
Born where the ghosts of buffaloes still dream,
Whose spirit hoof-beats storm above his grave,
Above that breast of earth and prairie-fire --
Fire that freed the slave.






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