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  • Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900). “An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century”, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, [190-]