Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.

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.