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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an American Quaker poet and political activist. He belongs to the canon of “Schoolroom Poets” -- highly regarded 19th century poets including William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Fragments of Whittier's poem, "The Eternal Goodness" appear several times throughout the Shaker Commonplace Book. "The Eternal Goodness" explores the liberal religious tradition of the Quakers and the ways that the speaker feels God’s love.
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