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Robert Treat Paine

1773–1811

Robert Treat Paine (1773–1811) was a Boston lawyer and poet, born Thomas Paine, who adopted the name Robert Treat Paine in 1801. His song Adams and Liberty (1798) was widely sung.

Griswold included 2 of his poems in The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition, Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1855), the anthology from which the poems here are taken.

Poems (2)

  1. Adams and Liberty
  2. From "Monody on the Death of Sir John Moore"

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