Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1108
AUTHOR:
Edwin Markham (18521940)
QUOTATION:
And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs, Goes down with a great shout upon the hills, And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.
ATTRIBUTION:
EDWIN MARKHAM, Lincoln, the Man of the People, stanza 4, lines 811, Lincoln & Other Poems, p. 3 (1901).