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Excerpt from "Had Lincoln Lived"
-- Amos Russell Wells, 1862-1933
Had Lincoln lived,
How would his hand, so gentle yet so strong;
Have closed the gaping wounds of ancient wrong;
How would his merry jests, the way he smiled,
Our sundered hearts to union have beguiled;
How would the South from his just rule have learned
That enemies to neighbors may be turned,
And how the North, with his sagacious art,
Have learned the power of a trusting heart;
What follies had been spared us, and what stain,
What seeds of bitterness that still remain,
Had Lincoln lived! |