Lincoln Poems for kids to recite

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Lincoln Poems for kids to recite | best poems for recitation competition

Lincoln

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.”