Death of General Grant

  As one by one withdraw the lofty actors,
  From that great play on historys 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,
  Victors and vanquishd--Lincolns and Lees--now thou with them,
  Man of the mighty days--and equal to the days!
  Thou from the prairies!--tangled and many-veind and hard has been thy part,
  To admiration has it been enacted!