""It’s a cauld barren blast that blaws nobody good.” - title of poem."
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John Lyon (poet)
John J. Lyon (4 March 1803, Glasgow – 28 November 1889) was a Scottish Latter Day Saint poet and hymn writer from Kilmarnock
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