Whittier

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    “Yet here at least an earnest sense
    Of human right and weal is shown;
    A hate of tyranny intense,
    And hearty in its vehemence,
    As if my brother’s pain and sorrow were my own.

    O Freedom! if to me belong
    Nor mighty Milton’s gift divine,
    Nor Marvell’s wit and graceful song.
    Still with a love as deep and strong
    As theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy shrine!”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    “The dreariest spot in all the land
    To Death they set apart;
    With scanty grace from Nature’s hand,
    And none from that of Art.”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    “For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
    The saddest are these: “It might have been!””
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)