| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 48054 |
| QUOTATION: | Once having marched
Over the margins of animal necessity,
Over the grim line of sheer subsistence
Then man came
To the deeper rituals of his bones, |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Carl Sandburg (1878–1967), U.S. poet. The People, Yes (l. 26–30). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Sandburg Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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