Notes
1] "Lincoln wrote the verses in the autograph album of Rosa Haggard,
daughter of the proprieter of the hotel at Winchester, Illinois, where he stayed when speaking at that place on the same date" (Works, III, 203).
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Original text: The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, III, ed. Roy P. Basler, Marion Dolores Pratt, and Lloyd A. Dunlap (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953): 203. E 457 .91 Robarts Library
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2003
Recent editing: 1:2003/6/1
Composition date:
28
September
1858
Form: quatrains
Rhyme: abab