Abraham Lincoln, Copybook Verses, 1824-1826

    Source 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/.
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    Miscellaneous
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    Exact
    Transcriber
    Transcription adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. Basler
    Adapted by Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College
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    The 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
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