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LINCOLN TRIUMPHANT by EDWIN MARKHAM

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First Line: LINCOLN IS NOT DEAD
Last Line: TO MAKE THE WORLD A WORLD OF FRIENDS.
Subject(s): LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865); PRESIDENTS, UNITED STATES;
LINCOLN is not dead. He lives
In all that pities and forgives.
He has arisen and sheds a fire
That makes America aspire.

Even now as, when in life, he led,
He leads us onward from the dead;
Yes, over the whole wide world he bends
To make the world a world of friends.



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