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Strike-for your altars and your fires Strike-for the green graves of your sires God-and your native land!

Fitz-Greene Halleck

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Fitz-Greene Halleck
Age: 77 †
Born: 1790
Born: July 8
Died: 1867
Died: November 19
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Fire
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Patriotism
Graves
Native
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Altars

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