The poem was written six years after Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 at the hands of John Wilkes Booth. ![]() The poem is dedicated to Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, whom Whitman greatly admired. " This Dust Was Once the Man" is an elegy poem written by Walt Whitman in 1871. The poem as it appears in Leaves of Grass (1871)
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