This Dust Was Once the Man


This dust was once the man,

Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,

Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,

Was saved the Union of these States


Walt Whitman


What is the word just most likely an allusion to?

ALincoln's career as a lawyer

BLincoln's death at war's end

CWhitman's war reporting

DWhitman's poem writing