LINCOLN MONUMENT: WASHINGTON 
by Langston Hughes 
(1902-1967) 

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.