Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln 1809 ( Hodgenville, Kentucky, ) – 1865 (Petersen House, Washington, D.C., United States)



Abraham Lincoln
his hand and pen
he will be good but
god knows When
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Submitted by halel on July 15, 2020

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States. Lincoln led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis in the American Civil War. Throughout his life, Abraham Lincoln was an avid reader of poetry. As a teenager, however, Lincoln also began to cultivate an interest in writing poetry. Lincoln's oldest surviving verses, written when he was between fifteen and seventeen years old, are brief squibs that appear in his arithmetic book. more…

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