1770 in Poetry

1770 In Poetry

Long as in Freedom's Cause the wise contend,
Dear to your unity shall Fame extend;
While to the World, the letter's Stone shall tell,
How Caldwell, Attucks, Gray and Mav'rick fell.''

"On the Affray in King Street, on the Evening of the 5th of March, 1770, about the Boston Massacre — Phillis Wheatley

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