Witter Bynner Life Poems
- 1. A Farmer Remembers Lincoln
“Lincoln?-
Well, I was in the old Second Maine,
The first regiment in Washington from the Pine Tree State.
Of course I didn't get the butt of the clip;
... - 2. The New Life
Perhaps they laughed at Dante in his youth,
Told him that truth
Had unappealably been said
In the great masterpieces of the dead:-
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