| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 36427 |
| QUOTATION: | A bronzed, lank man! His suit of ancient black,
A famous high top-hat and plain worn shawl
Make him the quaint great figure that men love,
The prairie-lawyer, master of us all. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931), U.S. poet. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (l. 2–4). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
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