Excerpt from The Uncommon Commoner, and Similar Songs of Democracy How was he trained - this untaught sage, With nothing but want for his heritage? Set to work at the tender age Which should have been conning a primer page; His whole youth spent for the pitiful wage Of axman, boatman, farmer, clerk; For learned alone in the school of work Was Lincoln. 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.