Why, with patience, may not you?
All that’s been done, you may do,
If you will but try.”
In a copy book the following lines, still preserved, were written by Lincoln:
“Abraham Lincoln
his hand and pen.
he will be good but
God knows when.”
This pathetic glimpse of the childhood dream may account for his profound interest in boys and boyhood. When he had reached world-wide fame he said, “The boy is the inventor and owner of the present, and he is our supreme hope for the future. Men and things everywhere minister unto him, and let no one slight his needs.”
