A Sandburg Stumper

[STS Lincolnite]

(04-10-2024 09:33 AM)Rob Wick Wrote:  No Googling, please.

Read this quote from Sandburg:

I am a child of time. I celebrate the dignity, importance and pathos of time. Time used me with snow and rain, wind and frost, rust and rot, till I was falling away. Unless loving and thoughtful hands had come to help me I would have prepared to vanish and become dust in the wind, a shattered form and a forgotten melody, a house melted into thin shadows.

Sandburg uses the word "house" here, but he was not talking about a house. What building was he speaking of?

Best
Rob

Wild guess here Rob. How about where Lincoln delivered the "House Divided" speech. The Old State Capitol in Springfield, IL.