Langston Hughes

Lincoln Monument: Washington

Let’s go see Old Abe
Sitting in the marble and the moonlight,
Sitting lonely in the marble and the moonlight,
Quiet for ten thousand centuries, old Abe.
Quiet for a million, million years.
 
Quiet—
 
And yet a voice forever
Against the
Timeless walls
Of time—
Old Abe.
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