TabsRecord DataSource citation: Copybook Verses, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 1: 2, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.Author: Lincoln, AbrahamType: MiscellaneousDate Certainty: ExactTranscriber: Transcription adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. BaslerAdapted by Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson CollegeTranscription date: 07/01/2013 TranscriptionThe following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original. Copybook Verses [1824-1826] Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen he will be good but god knows When Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen he will be good but god knows When Time What an emty vaper tis and days how swift they are swift as an indian arr[ow] Meter fly on like a shooting star the presant moment Just [is here] then slides away in h[as]te that we [can] never say they ['re ours] but [only say] th[ey]'re past Abraham Lincoln is my nam[e] And with my pen I wrote the same I wrote in both hast and speed and left it here for fools to read
