...ally place first among his works the poem on Lincoln's death, , which comes so near to recognized poetic methods that it falls naturally into rhyme. Whitman can never be classed as Spinoza was by Schleiermacher , among Godcated men; but he was early inebriated with two potent draughts — himself and his country:-- One's self I sing, a simple separate poem, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word ...