“A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler
O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.”

—  James Russell Lowell

No. 4, st. 2.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

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

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