Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903 / 2008-07-29 00:00:00
EBOOK ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ***
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
An Horatian Ode.
By Richard Henry Stoddard.
New York:
Bunce & Huntington, Publishers,
540 Broadway.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865,
By BUNCE & HUNTINGTON,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern
District of New York.
Alvord, Printer.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
Born, Feb. 12th, 1809.
Assassinated, Good-Friday, April 14th, 1865.
"Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o' the building.
* * * * * * * * * *
"Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight
With a new Gorgon:--Do not bid me speak;
See, and then speak yourselves.--Awake! awake!
Ring the alarum-bell:--Murder! and treason!
* * * * * * * * * *
"Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself!--up, up, and see
The great doom's image!
* * * * * * * * * *
"Our royal master's murdered!
* * * * * * * * * *
"Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant
There's nothing serious in mortality:
All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.
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