. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . step, as though the way were plain; Reckless, so it could point its paragraphOf chiefs perplexity or peoples pain. Beside this corps, that beats for winding sheetThe Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet,Say, scurril-jester, is there room for you ? Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer,To lame my pencil, and confute my pen— To make me own this hind of princes peer,This rail-splitter a true-born ki
. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . step, as though the way were plain; Reckless, so it could point its paragraphOf chiefs perplexity or peoples pain. Beside this corps, that beats for winding sheetThe Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet,Say, scurril-jester, is there room for you ? Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer,To lame my pencil, and confute my pen— To make me own this hind of princes peer,This rail-splitter a true-born king of men. My shallow judgment I had learnt to rue, Noting how to occasions height he rose,How his quaint wit made home-truth seem more true, How, iron-like, his temper grew by blows. How humble yet how hopeful he could be; How in good fortune and in ill the same;Nor bitter in success, nor boastful he. Thirsty for gold, nor feverish for fame. He went about his work—such work as fewEver had laid on head and heart and hand— As one who knows where theres a task to do Mans honest will must heavens good grace com-mand : THE LONDON PUNCH 101. 102 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND
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