We apprehend that the President
will visit a city in agony with
a crisis brought into it by ig-
noble and vulgar illusion, with
strategies of rebellion direct-
ed there for processes of elim-
ination. In a box drawn-in, Ab-
raham Lincoln struggles to that
stage he'd have to mount, to be
heard by every child born here,
or welcomed later as our child,
in words of purpose and succor.
It is certain, we hear him now.
At Gettysburg, Lincoln was firm
in waging a campaign which must
not flinch from victory; so the
shock of his enlisting mankind
in that commitment swept every
reservation aside. Such is the
task of his successor, to press
forward for the redemption of a
nation, by embracing its singu-
larity. Who will open our em-
braces to the children of that
spirit, to defend their deliv-
erance, to champion us in time?
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