Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1108 |
| AUTHOR: | Edwin Markham (1852–1940) |
| QUOTATION: | And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs, Goes down with a great shout upon the hills, And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. |
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| SUBJECTS: | Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865) |