--- "Ballard, Terry Prof." <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I remember a particularly savage ditty that > Twain wrote around 1865 as a satire of the grief > that swept America, and probably Whitman in > particular: > > He's dead, he's dead, he's dead, he's dead, > He's dead, he's dead, he's dead. > > Otherwise, Twain had good things to say about > Lincoln and the emancipation proclamation in 1907. Terry, Can we get a little more history of this poem? It seems like one of Twain's better attempts at poetry. Thanks, Larry