"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said."
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Abolitionists19th-century poets from the United StatesQuakersPoets from MassachusettsMassachusetts Libertyites
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Barbara Frietchie (1863); reported in Diane Ravitch, The American Reader: words that moved a nation (2000), p. 259. The lines are based on an folkloric account of the real Barbara Fritchie, said to have made a similar challenge to Confederate invaders of Maryland during the American Civil War.
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John Greenleaf Whittier
1807 – 1892
US-amerikanischer Dichter
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