{"id":7943,"date":"2022-02-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7943"},"modified":"2022-02-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T06:00:00","slug":"lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Topeka State Journal, February 12, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Witter Bynner.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An appreciation and character sketch of Lincoln, unusual and unique in form, but nonetheless forceful, is in the current issue of Harper’s Weekly. It comes from the pen of Witter Bynner, and is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincoln?\u2014
Well, I was in the old Second Maine,
The first regiment in Washington from the Pine Tree State.
Of course I didn\u2019t get the butt of the clip;
We was there guardin\u2019 Washington\u2014
We was all green.
I ain\u2019t never been to but one theater in my life\u2014
I didn\u2019t know how to behave;
I ain\u2019t never been since.
I can see as plain as my hat the box where he sat in
When he was shot.
There was quite a panic
When we found our President was in the shape he was in;
Never saw a soldier in the world but what liked him.
Yes, sir. His looks was kind o\u2019 hard to forget.\u2014
He was a spare man,
An old farmer.
Everything was all right, you know,
But he wan\u2019t a smooth-appearin\u2019 man at all,\u2014
Not in no ways;
Thin-faced, long-necked,
And a swellin\u2019 kind of a thick lip like,\u2014
A neighborin\u2019 farmer.
And he was a jolly old fellow, always cheerful;
He wan\u2019t so high but the boys could talk to him their own ways.
While I was servin\u2019 at the Hospital
He\u2019d come in and say, \u201cYou look nice in here,\u201d\u2014
Praise us up, you know.
And he\u2019d bend over and talk to the boys\u2014
And he\u2019d talk so good to \u2018em\u2014so close\u2014
That\u2019s why I call him a farmer.
I don\u2019t mean that everything about him wan\u2019t all right, you understand.
It\u2019s jes\u2019\u2014well, I was a farmer\u2014
And he was jes\u2019 everybody\u2019s neighbor.\u2014
I guess even you young folks would \u2019a\u2019 liked him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Topeka State Journal, February 12, 1914. By Witter Bynner. An appreciation and character sketch of Lincoln, unusual and unique in form, but nonetheless forceful, is in the current issue of Harper’s Weekly. It comes from the pen of Witter Bynner, and is as follows: Lincoln?\u2014Well, I was in the old Second Maine,The first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[329],"class_list":["post-7943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal","tag-witter-bynner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}