I Have Known The Silence Of The

Such Phantom Blossoms Palely Shining Over The Lifeless Boughs Of Time.

Those Who First Oppose A Good Work, Seize It And Make It Their Own, When The Cornerstone Is Laid And Memorial Tablets Are Erected.

The Much-sought Prize Of Eternal Youth Is Just Arrested Growth.

Why, A Moral Truth Is A Hollow Tooth Which Must Be Propped With Gold.

The Spiritual Kinship Between Lincoln And Whitman Was Founded Upon Their Americanism, Their Essential Westernism. Whitman Had Grown Up Without Much Formal Education; Lincoln Had Scarcely Any Education. One Had Become The Notable Poet Of The Day; One The Orator Of The Gettsyburg Address. It Was Inevitable That Whitman As A Poet Should Turn With A Feeling Of Kinship To Lincoln, And Even Without Any Association Or Contact Feel That Lincoln Was His.