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Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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