| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 48030 |
| QUOTATION: | There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart,
The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust.
A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest
corner of it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Carl Sandburg (1878–1967), U.S. poet. A. E. F. (l. 1–3). . .
Modern American & British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed., in consultation with Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur. (Rev., shorter ed., 1955) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Sandburg Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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