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Friday, March 4, 2016

Famous closing sentence (First Inaugural of A. Lincoln: March 4, 1861) : imagery of "better angels"

from www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/


The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.


http://abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/1inaug.htm

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