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John Greenleaf Whittier

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Press bravely onward! — not in vain
Your generous trust in human kind;
The good which bloodshed could not gain
Your peaceful zeal shall find.
--
To the Reformers of England, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 
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