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Specimens of American poetry

with critical and biographical notices

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[There have been loftier themes than his]

[_]

The attribution of this poem is uncertain.

“There have been loftier themes than his,
And longer scrolls, and louder lyres,
And lays lit up with poesy's
Purer and holier fires:

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Yet read the names that know not death;
Few nobler ones than his are there;
And few have won a greener wreath
Than that which binds his hair.”