“Youth is the time when hearts are large,
And stirring wars
Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn
To the blade it draws.”

—  Herman Melville

On the Slain Collegians, st. 1
Battle Pieces: And Aspects of the War (1860)

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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet 1818–1891

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