...and measurements properly solved; while below there appears in a boyish scrawl, an original rhyme: "Abraham Lincoln, His hand and pen, He will be good, But God knows when." God did know when ; for that boy, buried in the solitude of the wilderness, was being prepared for the day when his hand...

...joke, written when he was about seven years old. He wrote these fair lines of school-boy mischief: "Abraham Lincoln, His hand and pen; He will be good, but God knows when." His mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, was a woman of simplicity and strength. She had married his father...

...corners of this sheet that young Abe had scrawled the four memorable lines of schoolboy doggerel: " Abraham Lincoln, His hand and pen, He will be good, But God knows when." In some unaccountable way the young student secured a copy of Barclay's Dictionary which he doubtless...

...illustrated in the following verse which was found in his schoolboy notebook according to MissTarbell: "Abraham Lincoln, His hand and pen — He will be good, but God knows when." In a friend's notebook, he wrote: "Good boys who to their books apply Will all be great men by and...

...made from a wild turkey's quill he copied them carefully on paper. And he wrote in his arithmetic : "Abraham Lincoln His hand and pen ; He will be good, But God knows when." Hard work was his lot from a small boy. Barefoot Vie helped his father to clear the dense forest, plow...

...wrong and couldn't sing anyhow. Visitors to the Lincoln house were shown in a copy-book the scribbling: Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen. he will be good but god knows When. In the hanging ballad of "John Anderson's Lamentations," Abe made his own verses, of which these are...

...wrong and couldn't sing anyhow. Visitors to the Lincoln house were shown in a copy-book the scribbling: Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen. he will be good but god knows When. In the hanging ballad of "John Anderson's Lamentations," Abe made his own verses, of which these are...

...other. I now think that the aggregate of all my schooling did not amount to one year. (In a copy book) Abraham Lincoln, his hand and pen, He will be good, but God knows when. 1821 (?). Among my earliest recollections I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated...

...we are to be really good. I have often repeated the wise words, pathetic words, of Abraham Lincoln: 'Abraham Lincoln, his hand and pen, He will be good, but God knows when.' "He was a poet, that man, among other things. Have you ever read his lines on returning to his old...

...exhibited in certain of his books. Perhaps the earliest of these are the following often quoted lines: Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen. He will be good but God knows when. Some sentimental writers have professed to find in this doggerel some foreground of the mind and character...