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Published: 2013-05-27 21:18:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 341; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 5
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"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain..."~ Abraham Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address
Photographed at Loudon Park National Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Excellent quote. It suddenly occurs to me to wonder whether Lincoln had himself read the poem "The Bivouac of the Dead."
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An interesting thought. I don't know that there is "proof" he had, but it would almost seem he would have had some knowledge of it.
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I would think so, since it seemed to be fairly popular even in the first few years after it was written.
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And it certainly seems like a piece he would have sought out upon hearing of it.
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