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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 (10[1])the death of this person, the speaker (10[1])of a poem exclaims “O heart! heart! (10[1])heart!” The song of a “gray-brown” hermit thrush appears in a poem whose speaker (10[1])notes that after this person’s death, “the great star early droop’d in the western sky.” For 10 points, the poems “When Lilacs Last 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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