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A Poem by Nancy Byrd Turner: LINCOLN

   Posted by: B. Nash   in Poets on Lincoln

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Young Lincoln Statue at Lincoln Museum in Harrogate, Tennessee

Young Lincoln Statue at Lincoln Museum in Harrogate, Tennessee

Lincoln

by Nancy Byrd Turner

There was a boy of other days,
A quiet, awkward, earnest lad,
Who trudged long weary miles to get
A book on which his heart was set—
And then no candle had!

He was too poor to buy a lamp
But very wise in woodmen’s ways.
He gathered seasoned bough and stem,
And crisping leaf, and kindled them
Into a ruddy blaze.

Then as he lay full length and read,
The firelight flickered on his face,
And etched his shadow on the gloom,
And made a picture in the room,
In that most humble place.

The hard years came, the hard years went,
But, gentle, brave, and strong of will,
He met them all. And when today
We see his pictured face, we say,
"There’s light upon it still."
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Dave Wiegers
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The statue at the top of this page is a plaster version of the famous “Hoosier Youth” statue of Abraham Lincoln by Paul Manship from 1932. The bronze is situated in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana in front of the Lincoln Financial Insurance buidling. It is the first statue of Lincoln with a dog. In his right hand is a book and his axe leans against him. He is leaning against an oak stump. This Lincoln piece is considered one of the best and one of the first statues of Lincoln as a very young man in Indiana. Up to this point (1932) most statues of Lincoln showed Lincoln as the bearded president or the lawyer from Illinois.
The Manship statue is the center piece of an early book on Lincoln statues by Franklin B. Mead entitled “Heroic Statues in Bronze of Abraham Lincoln”. The book was published by Lincoln Fiinancial and is no longer in print but can often be acquired on the internet.

August 8th, 2010 at 11:32 am
B. Nash
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Great background information on the statue Dave. Are there other Lincoln statues depicting Likncoln with a dog? Interesting that the Lincoln Memorial University and it’s museum would feature that particular statue.

August 8th, 2010 at 7:55 pm

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