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The short life of Joseph Rodman Drake has a romantic interest, not only for the charm of his personality, but because of the valor with which he met the doom that overtook him at the age of 25 after a four year struggle with tuberculosis. Under the name The Croakers, he and his friend Fitz-Greene Halleck wrote a series of light satirical verses for the New York Evening Post.
Drake's poems, containing his patriotic classic, The American Flag, were published in 1835 (after his death) by his daughter under the title of |