May 07, 2007

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring…

(From Memories of President Lincoln, by Walt Whitman)

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Written by Brian Dewey.

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