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We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!

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John Adams
Age: 90 †
Born: 1735
Born: October 19
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
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In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.
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