QuoteQuest“When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed,And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Walt Whitman
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
Memories of President Lincoln, 1
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Whitman, Walt. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Walt Whitman. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman
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