Read these lines from Whitman’s "O Captain! My Captain!". But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. Which line from Lincoln’s "Gettysburg Address" appeals to the audience’s emotions in a similar way?

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We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live.

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Read these lines from Whitman’s "O Captain! My Captain!". But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. Which line from Lincoln’s "Gettysburg Address" appeals to the audience’s emotions in a similar way?

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