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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Born: December 29, 1814
Died: 1880 (aged 65)
Bio: Edwin Hubbell Chapin was an American preacher and editor of the Christian Leader. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea, which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie.
Known for:
- The crown of thorns (1847)
- Humanity in the city (1854)
- Duties of young men
- Discourses on the Lord's Prayer (1850)
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