| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 63995 |
| QUOTATION: | For the son is brought with the father,
(On the foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fell,
Two veterans son and father dropt together,
And the double grave awaits them). |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Walt Whitman (1819–1892), U.S. poet. Dirge for Two Veterans (l. 17–20). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Penguin Books. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Whitman Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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