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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!