"We would be strangers in the Capitol; this is our country also, no-where else; and we shall not be outcast on the world."
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"The Colony", in The Bell, vol. 18, no. 11 (1953), pp. 33β7
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John Hewitt (poet)
John Harold Hewitt (28 October 1907 β 22 June 1987) was an Ulster poet from Belfast.
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