Abraham Lincoln, give us a man!

“Give us a man of God’s own mould,

Born to marshal his fellow-men;

One whose fame is not bought and sold

At the stroke of a politician’s pen;

Give us the man of thousands ten,

Fit to do as well as to plan;

Give us a rallying-cry, and then,

Abraham Lincoln, give us a man!

“No leader to shirk the boasting foe,