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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walsh, William Shepard, 1854-1919, ed
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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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 same unwavering mood: Till, as he came on light from darkling days And seemed to touch the goal from where he stood, A felon hand, between the goal and him, Reached from behind his back, a trigger prest— THE LONDON PUNCH 105 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.—December 3, 1864.
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THE FEDERAL PHCENIX. 106 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI—December 31, 1864.

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