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Show Lincoln Wept Two of the lines of deepest import that we have found in modern poetry are these: Ask Lincoln weeping Alone at midnight. . As Christ wept over Jerusalem so Lincoln wept over his country. All the enemies that defamed him did not matter; all the obstacles placed in his way did not matter The question ques-tion uppermost in his mind was, "Can our country be saved?'' He wept under the burden ; he sonowed constant! v until the victory was won. So the question uppermost in the minds of A mesieans should be, "Can we save the kind of government that Lincoln saved, government of the people, by the people and for the people ' |