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    Abraham Lincoln An Horatian Ode
    Abraham Lincoln An Horatian Ode
    Abraham Lincoln An Horatian Ode
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    Abraham Lincoln An Horatian Ode

    By Richard Henry Stoddard

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Abraham Lincoln An Horatian Ode - Richard Henry Stoddard

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Abraham Lincoln., by Richard Henry Stoddard

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Abraham Lincoln. An Horatian Ode.

      Author: Richard Henry Stoddard

      Release Date: June 13, 2006 [EBook #18573]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ***

      Produced by The University of Michigan's Making of America online book collection (http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moa/).

      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!

      * * *

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