| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38233 |
| QUOTATION: | Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago, Of the horse-races of long ago at Clarys Grove, Of what Abe Lincoln said One time at Springfield. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Edgar Lee Masters (18691950), U.S. poet. The Hill (Spoon River Anthology) (l. 3437). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
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