by Whitman · Cluster: Mortality · Grave · Memento Mori
Abstract
Epitaph-quatrain for Lincoln, the gentle resolute man who saved the Union against the foulest crime in history; mortality, dust, and martyrdom.
Connections
Topoi: Memento Mori Archetypes: Martyr Saint Motifs: Dust Themes & Concepts: Mortality, Nationalism and Patriotism Forms & Genres: Epigram, Elegy Characters: Abraham Lincoln
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
This dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of these States.