Herman Melville Poem VIDEO

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You know him because he wrote Moby Dick, but he also wrote perhaps the greatest poem ever about Lincoln's assassination. (Captain my Captain is great too, but I like this one best. My old High School Drama teacher who is 85 years old did the voice. The music is from the Alfred Whital Stern collection of Lincolniana. It's called The Flag at Half Mast. Two of my friends from the San Antonio Symphony did the recording.)