“I range the fields with pensive tread,
And pace the hollow rooms;
And feel (companion of the dead)
I'm living in the tombs.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Canto I
1840s, My Childhood's Home I See Again (1844 - 1846)

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16th President of the United States 1809–1865

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