<h3>"HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE?"</h3>
<p>If Lincoln did not possess a wide range of reading, he had the habit
of committing to memory entire pages of the text he delighted in.
The consequence was his invariable ability to not only utter apt
quotations at length, but to cap them, if need be. Joining a group
of visitors to Washington, at the Soldiers' Home, during the war,
he suddenly, but in an undertone, murmured:</p>
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How sleep the brave who sink to rest<br/>
By all their country's wishes blest?</p>
<p>The women were affected to tears by their susceptible nature, the
surroundings of the cemetery with its graves, the evening dusk, and
the touching voice with its apposite lines. An effect he redoubled
by concluding:</p>
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And women o'er the graves shall weep,<br/>
Where nameless heroes calmly sleep!
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