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EDMUND STEDMAN

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EDMUND STEDMAN

<b>536. EDMUND STEDMAN</b>
<hr align=left size=5 width=33% color=#778899>(1833-1908). American poet, critic and editor of the works of Edgar Allen Poe. AQS, 1p, 5"x10", n.p., n.d. Stedman pens four of the twelve stanzas of his poem, “The Hand of Lincoln.” In full, “<i>Look on this cast, and know the hand / That bore a nation in its hold: / From this mute witness understand / What Lincoln was, —how large of mould / The man who sped the woodman’s team, / And deepest sunk the ploughman’s share, And pushed the laden raft astream, / Of fate before him unaware....Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, / Built up from yon large hand, appears: / A type that Nature wills to plan / But once in all a people’s years. / What better than this voiceless cast / To tell of such a one as he, / Since through its living semblance passed / The thought that bade a race be free!</i>” Boldly penned and signed. Light toning; last portion of three lines of last stanza has been expertly affixed to the rest of the item for framing; o/w VG.

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