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Joel Barlow
(1754 - 1812)

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Joel Barlow was born March 24, 1754, Redding, Connecticut. Barlow was an American diplomat and poet, he is most remembered as one of the Connecticut wits and the author of the mock The Hasty Pudding (1793). He briefly attended Dartmouth College but then transferred to Yale, where he celebra .. .. more >>

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"No Raven's wing can stretch the flight so far
As the torn bandrols of Napoleon's war.
Choose then your climate, fix your best abode,
He'll make you deserts and he'll bring you blood.
How could you fear a dearth? have not mankind,
Tho slain by millions, millions left behind?
Has not conscription still the power to weild
Her annual faulchion o'er the human field?
A faithful harvester!"
Joel Barlow (1754-1812), U.S. poet, politician. Advice to a Raven in Russia, December, 1812 (l. 29-37). . . Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.

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