“He wedded a wife of richest dower,
Who lived for fashion, as he for power.
Yet oft, in his marble hearth's bright glow,
He watched a picture come and go:
And sweet Maud Muller's hazel eyes
Looked out in their innocent surprise.”

Maud Muller (1856)

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American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slave… 1807–1892

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