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Clearing in the forest	A
In the wild Kentucky forest	A
And the stars wintry stars strewn above	B
O Night that is the starriest	A
Since Earth began to roll	C
For a Soul	C
Is born out of Love	B
Mother love father love love of Eternal God	A
Stars have pushed aside to let him through	D
Through heaven's sun sown deeps	E
One sparkling ray of God	A
Strikes the clod	A
And while an angel host through wood and clearing sweeps	E
Born in the wild	A
The Child	A
Naked ruddy new	D
Wakes with the piteous human cry and at the mother heart sleeps	E
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To the mother wild berries and honey	F
To the father awe without end	A
To the child a swaddling of flannel	G
And a dawn rolls sharp and sunny	F
And the skies of winter bend	A
To see the first sweet word penned	A
In the godliest human annal	G
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Frail Mother of the Wilderness	E
How strange the world shines in	H
And the cabin becomes chapel	G
And the baby lies secure	I
Sweet Mother of the Wilderness	E
New worlds for you begin	H
You have tasted of the apple	G
That giveth wisdom sure	I
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Soon in the wide wilderness	E
On a branch blown over a creek	J
Up a trail of the wild coon	K
In a lair of the wild bee	F
The rugged boy by danger's stress	E
Learnt the speech the wild things speak	J
Learnt the Earth's eternal tune	K
Of strife engendered harmony	F
Went to school where Life itself was master	L
Went to church where Earth was minister	L
And in Danger and Disaster	L
Felt his future manhood stir	L
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All about him lay the land	A
Eastern cities Western prairie	F
Wild immeasurable grand	A
But he was lost where blossomy boughs make airy	F
Bowers in the forest and the sand	A
Makes brook water a clear mirror that gives back	M
Green branches and trunks black	M
And clouds across the heavens lightly fanned	A
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Yet all the Future dreams eager to waken	N
Within that woodland soul	C
And the bough of boy has only to be shaken	N
That the fruit drop whereby this Earth shall roll	C
A little nearer God than ever before	O
Little recks he of war	O
Of national millions waiting on his word	A
Dreams still the Event unstirred	A
In the heart of the boy the little babe of the wild	A
But the years hurry and the tide of the sea	F
Of Time flows fast and ebbs and he even he	F
Must leave the wilderness the wood haunts wild	A
Soon shall the cyclone of Humanity	F
Tearing through Earth suck up this little child	A
And whirl him to the top where he shall be	F
Riding the storm column in the lightning stroke	P
Calm at the peak while down below worlds rage	Q
And Earth goes out in blood and battle smoke	P
And leaves him with the sun an epoch and an age	Q
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And lo as he grew ugly gaunt	A
And gnarled his way into a man	R
What wisdom came to feed his want	A
What worlds came near to let him scan	R
And as he fathomed through and through	D
Our dark and sorry human scheme	S
He knew what Shakespeare never knew	D
What Dante never dared to dream	S
That Men are one	N
Beneath the sun	N
And before God are equal souls	E
This truth was his	E
And this it is	E
That round him such a glory rolls	E
For not alone he knew it as a truth	T
He made it of his blood and of his brain	U
He crowned it on the day when piteous Booth	T
Sent a whole land to weeping with world pain	U
When a black cloud blotted the sun	N
And men stopped in the streets to sob	V
To think Old Abe was dead	A
Dead and the day's work still undone	N
Dead and war's ruining heart athrob	V
And earth with fields of carnage freshly spread	A
Millions died fighting	W
But in this man we mourned	A
Those millions and one other	L
And the States to day uniting	W
North and South	X
East and West	A
Speak with a people's mouth	X
A rhapsody of rest	A
To him our beloved best	A
Our big gaunt homely brother	L
Our huge Atlantic coast storm in a shawl	Y
Our cyclone in a smile our President	A
Who knew and loved us all	Y
With love more eloquent	A
Than his own words with Love that in real deeds was spent	A
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Oh to pour love through deeds	E
To be as Lincoln was	E
That all the land might fill its daily needs	E
Glorified by a human Cause	E
Then were America a vast World Torch	Z
Flaming a faith across the dying Earth	A2
Proclaiming from the Atlantic's rocky porch	Z
That a New World was struggling at the birth	A2
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O living God O Thou who living art	A
And real and near draw as at that babe's birth	A2
Into our souls and sanctify our Earth	A2
Let down Thy strength that we endure	I
Mighty and pure	I
As mothers and fathers of our own Lincoln child	A
Make us more wise more true more strong more mild	A
That we may day by day	A
Rear this wild blossom through its soft petals of clay	A
That hour by hour	L
We may endow it with more human power	L
Than is our own	B2
That it may reach the goal	C
Our Lincoln long has shown	B2
O Child flesh of our flesh bone of our bone	B2
Soul torn from out our Soul	C
May you be great and pure and beautiful	G
A Soul to search this world	A
To be a father brother comrade son	N
A toiler powerful	G
A man whose toil is done	N
One with God's Law above	B
Work wrought through Love	B

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