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Title: The Cross Author: John Greenleaf Whittier [More Titles by Whittier] Richard Dillingham, a young member of the Society of Friends, died in the Nashville penitentiary, where he was confined for the act of aiding the escape of fugitive slaves. "The cross, if rightly borne, shall be Thou brave and true one! upon whom Thy cross of suffering and of shame Thine was the seed-time; God alone Yet, unforgotten where it lies, 1852. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |