Excerpt from Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 7 of 9: Letters and Telegrams, Adams to Garrison; Including Messages to Congress, Military Orders, Memoranda, Etc;, Relating to Individual Persons She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down To make a man to meet the mighty need. She took the tried clay of the common road Clay warm yet with the genial heat of earth, Dashed through it all a strain of prophecy, Tempered the heap with touch of mortal tears; Then mixed a laughter with the serious stuff. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.