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First Line: As one by one withdraw the lofty actors
Last Line: To admiration has it been enacted!
Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885)


As one by one withdraw the lofty actors,
From that great play on history's stage eterne,
That lurid, partial act of war and peace -- of old and new contending,
Fought out through wrath, fears, dark dismays, and many a
long suspense;
All past -- and since, in countless graves receding, mellowing,
Victor's and vanquish'd -- Lincoln's and Lee's -- now thou with them,
Man of the mighty days -- and equal to the days!
Thou from the prairies! -- tangled and many-vein'd and
hard has been thy part,
To admiration has it been enacted!





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