| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 36426 |
| QUOTATION: | here at midnight, in our little town A mourning figure walks, and will not rest, Near the old court-house pacing up and down, |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Vachel Lindsay (18791931), U.S. poet. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (l. 24). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
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