"Like an isle rose Monticello through the cooled and rippling trees, Like an isle in rippling starlight in the silence of the seas. Ceased the mocking-bird his singing; said the slaves with faltering breath, "'Tis the Third, and on the morrow Heaven will send the Angel Death.""
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"The Death of Jefferson", st. 1. Songs of History (Boston: New England Publishing Co., 1887) p. 97
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Hezekiah Butterworth
1839 β 1905
Hezekiah Butterworth (December 22, 1839 β September 5, 1905) was an American author and poet.
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