A Sandburg Stumper

[Rob Wick]

Who wrote this to Carl Sandburg in 1938?

"Don't let the flight of time, the passage of the wild geese, the shortening of the daylight, or the coming of ice on the lake, at your feet, hurry this masterpiece. Dry bones don't get up in the valley and walk till the artists and the poets tell them to, and as your greatest work nears its end it must sing and rise to orchestral symphonic proportions. You are the only living man who can make Lincoln's biography rise up at the end and in full chorus. You may be the only American since Lincoln who could do this. So think of it as the Trojan Wars and yourself as Homer. The first part is great and the last part will be greater."

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Rob