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Lydia Maria Child. 1802-1880

Albert G. Greene. 1802-1868.

Old Grimes is dead, that good old man
We never shall see more;
He used to wear a long black coat
All buttoned down before.[596:1]

Old Grimes.

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.

Supposititious Speech of James Otis. The Rebels, Chap. iv.