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Hanford Lennox Gordon

To Horace Greeley, of date Aug. 22, 1862—”If I could save the Union
without freeing any slave, I would do it,” etc.


Perish the power that, bowed to dust,
Still wields a tyrant’s rod—
That dares not even then be just,
And leave the rest with God.

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From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems

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