. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . THE LONDON PUNCH 103. 104 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND Who trusts the strength will with the burden grow,That God makes instruments to work his will, If but that will we can arrive to know, Nor tamper with the weights of good and ill. So he went forth to battle on the side That he felt clear was libertys and rights, As in his peasant boyhood he had plied His warfare with rude natures thwarting mights— The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil, The iron back,
. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . THE LONDON PUNCH 103. 104 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND Who trusts the strength will with the burden grow,That God makes instruments to work his will, If but that will we can arrive to know, Nor tamper with the weights of good and ill. So he went forth to battle on the side That he felt clear was libertys and rights, As in his peasant boyhood he had plied His warfare with rude natures thwarting mights— The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil, The iron back, that turns the lumberers axe; The rapid, that oerbears the boatmans toil, The prairie, hiding the mazed wanderers tracks, The ambushed Indian, and the prowling bear— Such were the needs that helped his youth to train: Rough culture—but such trees large fruit may bearIf but their stocks be of right girth and grain. So he grew up, a destined work to do, And lived to do it; four long-suffering years Ill-fate, ill-feeling, ill-report lived through, And then he heard the hisses change to cheers, The taunts to tribute, the abuse to praise, And took both with the
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