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The speaker compares this person to a dove who “to his covet has fled” in a poem by George Moses Horton. In a poem about this person, the speaker states that time charges like “ceaseless clouds across the sky” after noting, “Hush’d be the camps to-day.” (10[1])While thinking about this person, one poem’s speaker imagines a scene of “the workmen homeward returning” after asking, “what shall I hang on the chamber walls?” After the death of this person, (10[1])the speaker of a poem exclaims (10[1])“O heart! (10[1])heart! heart!” (10[1])The song of a “gray-brown” hermit thrush appears in a poem (10[1])whose speaker notes that after this person’s death, “the great star early droop’d (10[1])in the western sky.” For 10 points, the poems “When Lilacs Last (10[1])in the Dooryard Bloom’d” and “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman mourn the death of what president? ■END■

ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln (The Horton poem is “Lincoln is Dead.”)
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