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.

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"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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"Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself!--up, up, and see