-- By Walt Whitman --

This memorial poem for Abraham Lincoln was published less than 7 months after his death. Whitman and Lincoln never met, but Whitman accounts in his writings that he saw the President many times, even in the same room some of those times.

Unlike yesterdays reading, Oration for Abraham Lincoln By Frederick Douglass, Whitman had unwavering admiration for the President in every way. If you wanna know more, listen to Douglass' Oration, the most recent episode.