Wow, here I would have recognized Gounod. In the other I'm afraid I didn't. Seems to be from Toulouse. I wonder if Lincoln read Faust (Goethe at all).
"In the end, you are – what you are.
Set your hair in a thousand curlicues
Place your feet in yard-high shoes,
You’ll remain forever, what you are" (said Mephistopheles.)