What did Lincoln read?

[Eva Elisabeth]

The poem is especially on my mind as three people that I've known for a long time passed way this past week- none of them related to me. Life truly is short and to be valued for every heartbeat we have.

I'm very sorry to hear this, Bill!
I wonder if Lincoln also read Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" (Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying...)