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I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast
Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest.
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"On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington", Boston Courier, 19 July 1845; anthologized in Poems (1848)

 

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