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LONG SHADOW OF LINCOLN by CARL SANDBURG

Poet Analysis

First Line: BE SAD, BE COOL, BE KIND
Last Line: BY THE LIGHT OF THE HARD OLD TEACHING: %'WE MUST DISENTHRALLOUSELVES'
Subject(s): LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865); PRESIDENTS, UNITED STATES;

Poem Sources:

TO PLAY MAN NUMBER ONE.
  HANNUM, SARA, & CHASE, JOHN TERRY (EDS.)
  (1969)
 
LINCOLN & THE POETS.
  BETTS, WILLIAM W. (ED.)
  (1965)
 



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