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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
James K. Baxter

Born: June 29, 1926
Died: October 22, 1972 (aged 46)
Bio: James Keir Baxter was a poet, and is a celebrated figure in New Zealand society.
Known for:
- Collected poems of James K. Baxter
- Poems to a Glass Woman
- Spark to a waiting fuse
- New selected poems
- Jerusalem daybook (1971)