Excerpt from Poets' Lincoln: Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President

Although they are chie¿y the productions of American authors, quite a number are from the pens of appreciative citizens of other countries. From the thousand of meritorious poems which have been written about Lincoln, the compiler, after serious consideration, has selected those within as appearing to be gems, although there were others which he would have been glad to include if space permitted.

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