The Words of Lincoln

In July 1963 President Kennedy said this on the grounds of Gettysburg:

Five score years ago the ground on which we stand shuddered under the clash of arms and was consecrated for all time by the blood of American manhood. Abraham Lincoln, in dedicating this great battlefield, has expressed in words too eloquent to paraphrase or summary, why the sacrifice was necessary.

THE WORDS OF LINCOLN

The words of Lincoln

From his heart they came

One man who for his country, he shivered with pride

I can see his hands shaking and feel his heart beating

As he lamented for liberty and the cost of who died

This speech as told in Gettysburg

Has always held We the People at pause

Even students in tender years

Were left entirely consumed with the cause

The battle field has ghosts of brave soldiers who stayed

Bemoaning the now unseen blood that was shed

So many lives and limbs had been paid

All we have now are the words Lincoln said

The Gettysburg address is his gift for all time

Pertaining so much to what  is meant to be free

The liberty and treasure that's now yours and mine

Are from the most unselfish war in our history