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TO A RELATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN by HENRY HARRISON

First Line: YOU SNICKER THAT YOU DO NOT CARE FOR HIM
Last Line: IT'S YOU WHO LIVE, BUT NEVER CAN SURVIVE!
Subject(s): IGNORANCE; LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865); PRESIDENTS, UNITED STATES; RACISM; SHAME; DULLNESS; STUPDITY; RACIAL PREJUDICE; BIGOTRY;

You snicker that you do not care for him
Who set the black man free. Your tongue is grim,
But I am not misled. Despite the fact
You mock him, I remember every act
He shaped. Perhaps if Lincoln were on earth,
He'd be ashamed of you, then moved to mirth.
Yet Honest Abe, though dead, is still alive;
It's you who live, but never can survive!



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