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Part of page 42 of the 1871 Leaves of Grass

"This Dust Was Once the Man" is an elegy poem written by Walt Whitman in 1871. The poem is dedicated to Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, whom Whitman greatly admired. The poem was written six years after Lincoln's assassination. Whitman had written three previous poems about Lincoln, all in 1865: "O Captain! My Captain!", "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day". "This Dust Was Once the Man" has not attracted much individual attention, though it was generally positively received and has been analyzed several times, generally as a epitaph for Lincoln. The poem describes Lincoln as having saved the union of the United States from "the foulest crime in history", a line that scholars have interpreted in conflicting ways. It is generally seen as referring to either the secession of the Confederate States of America or the assassination of Lincoln. (This article is part of a featured topic: Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln.)

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Hi Eddie891 and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:26, 2 November 2021 (UTC)