Comments on: Lincoln’s Early Loss http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2011/05/21/archives/post-perspective/lincolns-early-loss.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lincolns-early-loss Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Ima Ryma http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2011/05/21/archives/post-perspective/lincolns-early-loss.html/comment-page-1#comment-108905 Ima Ryma Mon, 23 May 2011 07:49:31 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=33469#comment-108905 I worked for him in Illinois,
And followed him to Washington.
With army troops I did deploy
To keep the rebels on the run.
I was returned a casualty.
In the White House I laid in State.
He came to bid farewell to me,
To mourn my consequence of fate.
He was but one man who yet must
Carry all the burdens of war.
I might have been his first loss thrust
On him, but he’d bear many more.

I called the President my friend,
And he wept for me at my end.

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