William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.
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“When beechen buds begin to swell,
And woods the blue-bird’s warble know,
The yellow violet’s modest bell
Peeps from the last year’s leaves below.”
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“In a democracy dissent is an act if faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects.”
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How gushed the life-blood of her brave—
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Upon the soil they fought to save.”
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