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"Mortality", in Songs of Israel (1824). Abraham Lincoln was fond of repeating these lines.

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Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.
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William Knox

William Knox

Born: 1789
Died: 1825 (aged 36)
Bio: William Knox was a Scottish poet. He is known for writing Abraham Lincoln's favourite poem, Mortality, which Lincoln often recited by memory.

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