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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 256

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47 by the first collec-tion of Emersons poems. of Freedom, appeared in 1849. When we com-pare either of these volumes with Longfellows Poems on Slavery (printed in 1842, midwaybetween them), we see how much sturdier Whit-tiers stanzas are, and how much more his heartis in the cause than… … WHITTIER S BIRTHPLACE. NEAR HAVERHILL, MASS. Other poems, which Whittier discarded inlater life, were published in the next few years.The most vigorous of the verses he wrote atthis time were inspired by his hatred of slavery.From the day he threw himself into the aboli-tion movement, his verse has…

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