"At the piping of all hands, When the judgment-signal's spread— When the islands and the lands And the seas give up their dead, And the South and North shall come; When the sinner is dismayed, And the just man is afraid, Then Heaven be thy aid, Poor Tom."
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Lament for Long Tom, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
1795 – 1828
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1795 – 1828) was a short-lived American lawyer, editor and poet.
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