This person is described as “gentle, plain, just and resolute” in “This Dust Was Once the Man,” the last in a set of four poems dedicated to him. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this “sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands” who is called a “comrade lustrous with silver face” in a poem that allegorizes him to a “western orb sailing the heaven.”
ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln
[10h] “This Dust Was Once the Man” often appears alongside this short poem, written just days after Lincoln’s assassination. This poem’s speaker tells his fellow soldiers to “drape our war-worn weapons” and “sing poet in our name.”
ANSWER: “Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day”
[10e] This poet included the elegies “This Dust Was Once the Man” and “Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day” among the “Memories of Abraham Lincoln” cluster of his collection Leaves of Grass.
ANSWER: Walt Whitman
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