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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

It was first published in 1865 by Gibson Brothers, a publisher in Washington, DC, who included it in a small volume with poems intended as a sequel to his Drum Taps.

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" is an elegy written by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) shortly after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.



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