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Nor moves his pen our heedless nation now,
Which, sworn to justice, stirred the people so.
In some far world his much-loved face must glow
With rapture still. This breeze once fanned his brow.
This is the peaceful Mecca all men know!

— Joel Benton

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C. H. Crandall (ed.) Representative Sonnets by American Poets (1890), p. 113

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Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite
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In the wan moon's silver ray
Thrives their helter-skelter play.

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Bring cypress, rosemary and rue
For him who kept his rudder true;
Who went at dawn to that high star
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