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" He held the ridgepole up, and spiked again The rafters of the Home. He held his place — Held the long purpose like a growing tree — Held on through blame and faltered not at praise. And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down As when a lordly cedar,... "
The Medico-legal Journal - Page 148
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Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the ...

United States. Congress - Legislators - 1979 - 136 pages
...continue without the benefit of his special presence. As was written long ago on a similar occasion : He went down As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs, Goes down with a shout upon the hill, And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. Mrs. HECKLER. Mr. Speaker, if I were...
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Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the ...

Government publications - 1981 - 48 pages
...young and all that — who wrote : And when he fell in whirlwind he went down, as when a lordly cedar goes down with a great shout upon the hills and leaves a lonesome place against the sky. There will be a lonesome place in this Chamber forever, or at least so long as any person living now...
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Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the ...

Government publications - 1981 - 48 pages
...of Lincoln, considering BILL'S tender years— only the good die young and all that — who wrote : And when he fell in whirlwind he went down, as when a lordly cedar goes down with a great shout upon the hills and leaves a lonesome place against the sky. There will...
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Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the ...

Government publications - 1983 - 344 pages
...PHIL BURTON, and I quote Markham : He held his place — Held the long purpose like a growing tree — Held on through blame and faltered not at praise....With boughs, goes down with a great shout upon The ills and leaves a lonesome place against the sky. That was PHIL BURTON. Mr. LOWRY of Washington. Mr....
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...30-35) 3 The grip that swung the ax in Illinois Was on the pen that set a people free. (1. 44—45) 4 versity Press (1. 53-56) GN; MoAmPo; OHFP; OHIP; PAH; TrGrPo The Man with the Hoe 5 Bowed by the weight of centuries...
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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations

Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...Cavalry more spectacular but less substantial c., 1154 Cavour, Camillo Benso, Conte di (1810-1861), 915 Cedar green with boughs, / Goes down with a great shout upon the hills, 1108 Celibacy, 1152 Cement Cemetery institution which rejects progress, 184 Censor and the inquisitor...
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The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry

Richard Marius - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 592 pages
...tree — Held on through blame and faltered not at praise — Held on in calm rough-hewn sublimity, And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down As when...hills, And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. TTiis poem, from Masters's Spoon River Anthology, makes much of an imagined love affair Lincoln is...
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Lincoln in American Memory

Merrill D. Peterson - History - 1995 - 493 pages
...the earthquake shook the house. He held his place — Held the long purpose like a growing tree — Held on through blame and faltered not at praise....when he fell in whirlwind, he went down As when a kingly cedar green with boughs Goes down with a great shout upon the hills, And leaves a lonesome place...
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Lawrence County, Illinois: 175th Anniversary, 1821-1996

Lawrence County Historical Society (Lawrence County, Ill.) - Illinois - 1995 - 364 pages
...school. On the plaque is Edwin Markham's poem: And when at last in whirlwind they went down, 'Twas "As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs, Goes down...hills". And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. Submitted by Anna Ruth Smith HARRY "CAP" STANSFIELD - Harry "Cap" Stansfield always referred to himself...
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‘No Mentor but Myself’: Jack London on Writing and Writers, Second Edition

Jack London, Dale L. Walker, Jeanne Campbell Reesman - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 274 pages
...held his place— Held the long purpose like a growing tree— Held on through blame and flattered not at praise. And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down As when a kingly cedar green with boughs Goes down with a great shout upon the hills, And leaves a lonesome place...
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