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 "title": "Lofty Actors Withdraw",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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    "text": "As one by one the lofty actors of the age",
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   {
    "text": "Withdraw from clianging play on history’s page,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The act of war and peace of old and new contending",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For it is long ere there’s harmonious blending.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And many a noble actor brave and bold",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hath perished in the fight between the new and old,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The victor and the vanquished Lincoln and Lee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The former he four million slaves set free.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The latter General fought with bravery and science,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The first he on the Lord placed strong reliance,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And in the justice of his cause he bade the North",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As grand emancipators they should issue forth.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And o’er great North the conquering name of Grant",
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   {
    "text": "His mighty deeds of valour they ’ere more will chant,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And now doth pass from stage this last named actor,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In crushing Southern slavery potent factor.",
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