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LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: ON PLEASURE BENT, SEE HOW THE PRESSING HORDES
Last Line: LINCOLN ALONE, IN AN ETERNAL SCENE.
Subject(s): ASSASSINATION; COMEDY; LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865); PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ; PRESIDENTS, UNITED STATES; TRAGEDY; DRAMATISTS;
ON pleasure bent, see how the pressing hordes
Flock to the play where Comedy is queen.
A shot! And Tragedy usurps the boards; . . .
Lincoln alone, in an eternal scene.



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