Here, where the lonely hooting owl
Sends forth his midnight moans,
Fierce wolves shall o’er my carcase growl,
Or buzzards pick my bones.
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Abe suffered with clinical depression throughout his life, he supposedly wrote this poem anonymously in the local newspaper. We see small details of Lincolns depression throughout his life. Such as; when he was a lawyer the town Lincoln lived changed it's name to " Lincoln" . Abe, who was opposed to renaming the town disapproved saying " Anything that bore the Lincoln name never amounted to anything" .
the dejected heart near about to suicidal note but not suicide and inside power strikes the conscience to awake thougth true note of life!