Lincoln and Ann Rutledge

[Eva Elisabeth]

(Better than who? Masters?) I'm afraid I tried to illustrate my point in the post above in an ironical way, I'm sorry about that, and actually I'm not sure if you really got it.
I don't believe the words were left out because Masters himself followed his gôut instead of his instructions and changed the line on his own authority. If it was like that and such artistic liscense possible - this was intended to be an illustrative example - I'm glad that such didn't happen with the Memorial inscriptions as I wouldn't have liked anything changed or left out (and here's my opinion). Hope this answers your question!