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Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass

Poem 188 of 382 · Memories of President Lincoln

This Dust Was Once the Man

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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.

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