"Why linger o'er decrepit shrine In Hellas or in Palestine? America as Greece is grand, America is Holy Land."
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"To the American Poet", st. 2. On Life's Stairway (Boston: L. C. Page & Co., 1901) p. 5
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Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Frederic Lawrence Knowles (September 8, 1869 – September 20, 1905) was an American poet.
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