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Massachusetts The land was ours before we were the land’s. Robert Frost,“The Gift Outright” The City on the Hill held them: Submit Hastings,Thankfull Sprague Unite, Hepsibah, Renew, Ebenezer, Mercy, Patience, Experience, Devotion, Jane: He was of the most profane family imaginable,the first hanged man in the colonies. Hannah Haskins,dau of Samuel,died aVirgin,1648. He kept his horse saddled so that witchcraft trial victims could ride away in the night. Here lies Israel Cox,a Revolutionary Soldier,aged 94 y.11 mos. That very large lady in the diaphanous white slip striding toward the west— do you know that painting?— And yes, I think so, yes, I believe in it: free soil, freedom, progress, profits, streets paved in gold, (the starving, the refuse, the refugees) and radical, radical thoughts. 17 ...

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