Springfield Kings Defeated

Famous quotes containing the words springfield, kings and/or defeated:

    “Perhaps you have forgotten me. Dont [sic] you remember a long black fellow who rode on horseback with you from Tremont to Springfield nearly ten years ago, swimming your horses over the Mackinaw on the trip? Well, I am that same one fellow yet.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “Go, grandly borne, with such a train
    As greatest kings might die to gain.
    The just, the wise, the brave,
    Attend thee to the grave.”
    —Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903)

    “Vanquished in life, his death
    By beauty made amends:
    The passing of his breath
    Won his defeated ends.”
    —Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)