Who wrote the lines of poetry "quoted" by Lincoln at the Soldiers' Home?
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07-10-2021, 03:54 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-10-2021 04:20 AM by Steve Whitlock.)
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RE: Who wrote the lines of poetry "quoted" by Lincoln at the Soldiers' Home?
(07-10-2021 01:09 AM)Steve Whitlock Wrote: Roger, Last thoughts are that the 3rd and 4th lines were written for the 1st 2 lines. We need look no further than the beginning question: How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, To the ending answer: Where nameless heroes calmly sleep. I believe Mr. Lincoln penned those lines! We are not the first to look for another author, to no avail. The SF Bulletin article will only verify that it was quoted correctly, but doesn't prove he wrote the last 2 lines. If Abe wrote the poem, I would expect a copy somewhere among his papers, if other accounts of his poetry exist in a Lincoln Collection. I didn't see a footnote for the screenshot use of the 4 lines, so I wonder how the author sourced the comment, or was the book a work of fiction? (07-10-2021 03:40 AM)Steve Wrote: Oh! sleep, ye brave---still calmly sleep Steve, Interesting. Here's the rest in the attachment from the NY Mirror, and Ladies' Literary Gazette, a book from 1824. |
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