| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 45971 |
| QUOTATION: | I would not knock old fellows in the dust
But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
His weapons were the old heart in his bust
And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), U.S. poet. Captain Carpenter (l. 45–48). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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