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The President was without
precedent Refusing the power of kings, He yet understood that the State Required what reverence brings: A loyalty one can create. And so he became The Great Leader, The focus of wide adulation. Yet only a one-time repeater, He served not the man, but the nation. He gave to the State what the states Could only recopy writ small: The sense of a Center the fates Must bless for the good of us all. He played well the hero who held The Union together those years, Until the still-thin mixture jelled, And fact was more forceful than fears; Till the other great president we Now jam into one day for two Kept the Union together and free, His own blood the ultimate glue. Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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