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Abraham Lincoln - But Here`s An Object More Of DreadAbraham Lincoln - But Here`s An Object More Of Dread
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                  But here`s an object more of dread                     Than aught the grave contains--                   A human form with reason fled,                     While wretched life remains.                   When terror spread, and neighbors ran                     Your dangerous strength to bind,                   And soon, a howling, crazy man,                     Your limbs were fast confined;                   How then you strove and shrieked aloud,                     Your bones and sinews bared;                   And fiendish on the gazing crowd                     With burning eyeballs glared;                   And begged and swore, and wept and prayed,                     With maniac laughter joined;                   How fearful were these signs displayed                     By pangs that killed the mind!                   And when at length the drear and long                     Time soothed thy fiercer woes,                   How plaintively thy mournful song                     Upon the still night rose!                   I`ve heard it oft as if I dreamed,                     Far distant, sweet and lone,                   The funeral dirge it ever seemed                     Of reason dead and gone.                   To drink its strains I`ve stole away,                     All stealthily and still,                   Ere yet the rising god of day                     Had streaked the eastern hill.                   Air held her breath; trees with the spell                     Seemed sorrowing angels round,                   Whose swelling tears in dewdrops fell                     Upon the listening ground.                   But this is past, and naught remains                     That raised thee o`er the brute:                   Thy piercing shrieks and soothing strains                     Are like, forever mute.                   Now fare thee well! More thou the cause                     Than subject now of woe.                   All mental pangs by time`s kind laws                     Hast lost the power to know.                   O death! thou awe-inspiring prince                     That keepst the world in fear,                   Why dost thou tear more blest ones hence,                     And leave him lingering here?
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