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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

 

“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d

And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,

I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,

Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love.”

  —Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Sculpture Court: Marjorie Petty Harper Gallery»

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