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While it is melancholy to reflect that the war has filled so many graves and carried mourning to so many hearts, it is some relief to know that, compared with the surviving, the fallen have been so few.
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gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “While it is melancholy to reflect that the war has filled so many graves and carried mourning to so many hearts, it is…”
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Lincoln acknowledges the sorrow caused by the war's casualties while finding solace in the relatively small number of fallen compared to survivors.
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