Excerpt from Thanatopsis, Sella, and Other Poems

Her prompt condemnation of injustice made a strong impression upon me in early life, and if in the discussion of public questions I have in my riper age endeavored to keep in view the great rule of right, it has been owing in a great degree to the force of her example, which taught me never to countenance a wrong because others did.

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