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Title: Abraham Lincoln.
An Horatian Ode.
Author: Richard Henry Stoddard
Release Date: June 13, 2006 [EBook #18573]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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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
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