"As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?"
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John Trumbull (poet)
1775 – 1782
John Trumbull (April 24, 1750 – May 11, 1831) was an American poet born in what is now Watertown, Connecticut, where his father was a Congregational preacher.
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