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Lines on Luther single work   poetry   "'Tis passing strange what happy thoughts arise,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1860... 1860 Lines on Luther
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Notes

  • Author's note: Written in Van Diemen's Land for H. Von Stieglitz, Esq.
  • Author's note: [From the Bolton Chronicle of July 12, 1845.]
  • Author's note: Luther had been to the Diet of Worms to defend his cause; while returning home, he was seized by masked emissaries of Frederick, and taken to the castle of Wurtemberg, where he was confined ... The following lines were written after having been shown a snuff box made out of the bedstead on which he reposed while in the above-mentioned castle.
  • Author's note: Hillcot, July 7, 1845.

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