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To A Woman In A Cabin In Hardin County, Kentucky
You are considered, even relegated, to the
crowd of the impoverished, likely illiterate; their ranks,
beneath consideration of the genteel plutocracy
that denies its attention and enclosed society
to such as you. Since the seventeenth century,
it has been so; and no one suggests it is discourtesy.
Now you are about to begin the travail of the delivery
of the baby in your womb, during this frigid February:
He will be an important man, indeed among the most extraordinary
of heroes recognized and celebrated by secular History;
yes, one of the land's inimitable Greats---
because he will lead the restoration of a unified America,
the reunion, in blessed permanence, of the United States.
From your flesh he will come, you, Tom Lincoln's spouse, Nancy Hanks.
Januarily
