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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892). The Poetical Works in Four Volumes. 1892.

At Sundown

James Russell Lowell

FROM purest wells of English undefiled

None deeper drank than he, the New World’s child,

Who in the language of their farm-fields spoke

The wit and wisdom of New England folk,

Shaming a monstrous wrong. The world-wide laugh

Provoked thereby might well have shaken half

The walls of Slavery down, ere yet the ball

And mine of battle overthrew them all.