“I du believe with all my soul
In the gret Press's freedom,
To pint the people to the goal
An' in the traces lead 'em.”

— James Russell Lowell

No. 6, st. 7
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

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American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819–1891

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