Death of General Grant

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!