Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine (1737–1809), born in England, emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1774 and became the great pamphleteer of the American Revolution, author of Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis. His song Liberty Tree appeared in the Pennsylvania Magazine in 1775.

The poems here are taken from American War Ballads and Lyrics, edited by George Cary Eggleston (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889), where it is printed under his or her name: Liberty Tree.