GDG- Abraham Lincoln

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Thank you for posting this - I memorized this poem when I was six, and it's  
always had the power to bring tears to my eyes.
 
Sherrie
 
 



At  11:44 AM 4/15/2008, you wrote:
>Esteemed GDG Member  Contributes:
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>ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT  MIDNIGHT
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>It is portentous, and a thing of  state
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>That here at midnight, in our little  town
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>A mourning figure walks, and will not  rest,
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>Near the old court-house pacing up and  down,
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>Or by his homestead, or in shadowed  yards
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>He lingers where his children used to  play,
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>Or through the market, on the well-worn  stones
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>He stalks until the dawn-stars burn  away.
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>A bronzed, lank man! His suit of ancient  black,
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>A famous high-top hat and plain worn  shawl
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>Make him the quaint great figure that men  love,
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>The prairie-lawyer, master of us  all.
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>He cannot sleep upon his hillside  now.
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>He is among us:--as in times before!
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>And we  who toss and lie awake for long,
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>Breathe deep, and start, to  see him pass the door.
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>His head is bowed. He  thinks of men and kings.
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>Yea, when the sick world cries, how  can he sleep?
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>Too many peasants fight, they know not  why;
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>Too many homesteads in black terror  weep.
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>The sins of all the war-lords burn his  heart.
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>He sees the dreadnoughts scouring every  main.
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>He carries on his shawl-draped shoulders  now
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>The bitterness, the folly and the  pain.
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>He cannot rest until a  spirit-dawn
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>Shall come;--the shining hope of Europe  free:
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>A league of sober folk, the worker's  earth,
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>Bringing long peace to Cornland, Alp and  Sea.
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>It breaks his heart that kings must murder  still,
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>That all his hours of travail here for  men
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>Seem yet in vain. And who will bring white  peace
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>That he may sleep upon his hill again?
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