The Bare Bodkin

large part because they are about memoryrnitself: "Tbc mystic chords of memoryrn. .. The world will little note, nor long rememberrn. . . My fellow citizens, we cannotrnescape history. We of this Congressrnand this administrahon will be rememberedrnin spite of ourselves. . . The worldrnwill not forget..."rnBut Lincoln had haunting memoriesrncloser to home, which . . .