I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast
Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest.


"On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington", Boston Courier, 19 July 1845; anthologized in Poems (1848)

James Russell Lowell Quotes

I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest.

I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest.

I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest.

I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest.