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John Pierpont war ein US-amerikanischer Lyriker, der später auch als Lehrer, Rechtsanwalt, Kaufmann, und Geistlicher der Unitarier tätig war. Sein bekanntestes Gedicht heißt The Airs of Palestine. Wikipedia

✵ 6. April 1785 – 27. August 1866

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“From every place below the skies
The grateful song, the fervent prayer,—
The incense of the heart, —may rise
To heaven, and find acceptance there.”

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John Pierpont

Every Place a Temple, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "This is that incense of the heart / Whose fragrance smells to heaven" Nathaniel Cotton, The Fireside, stanza 11.

“A weapon that comes down as still
As snowflakes fall upon the sod;
But executes a freeman's will,
As lightning does the will of God;
And from its force nor doors nor locks
Can shield you,—'t is the ballot-box.”

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John Pierpont

A Word from a Petitioner, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).