Lincoln and Ann Rutledge

[Eva Elisabeth]

(06-25-2014 01:55 AM)Lewis Gannett Wrote:  And how on earth did you read about "heart of a thousand strings"?

Maybe Toia knows a contemporary source, but M. Burlingame in "A. L.- A Life" (chapt.6) claims A. L. repeatedly said this, but without giving a source.
However, the line is originally from "Creation", a hymn the words of which are by Isaac Watts (1674 -1748):

When I with pleasing wonder stand
And all my frame survey
Lord, 'tis thy work, I own thy hand
Thus built my humble clay
Our life contains a thousand springs,
And dies if one be gone.
Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long.