John Greenleaf Whittier

17 December 1807 – 7 September 1892 / Haverhill, Massachusetts

Mulford

Unnoted as the setting of a star
He passed; and sect and party scarcely knew
When from their midst a sage and seer withdrew
To fitter audience, where the great dead are
In God's republic of the heart and mind,
Leaving no purer, nobler soul behind.
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