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John Greenleaf Whittier

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I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.


— John Greenleaf Whittier


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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.


— John Greenleaf Whittier


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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.


— John Greenleaf Whittier


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He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets. John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17 1807 – September 7 1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Highly regarded in his lifetime and for a period thereafter he is now remembered for his poem Snow-Bound and the words of the hymn Dear Lord and Father of Mankind from his poem "The Brewing of Soma" sung to music by Hubert Parry.

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