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FINCH, Francis Miles, poet, born in Ithaca, New York, 9 June 1827. He was graduated at Yale in 1849, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Ithaca. In 1881 he was elected an associate judge of the court of appeals of the state of New York. On the establishment of Cornell University, he was chosen secretary of its board of trustees. In July 1853, he read a poem at the centennial celebration of the Linonian society of Yale, in which several lyrics were introduced, including one on Nathan Hale, the patriot spy of the Revolution. This at once achieved wide popularity. He has also written other well known lyrics, including "The Blue and the Gray," and a College smoking song, beginning "Floating away like the fountain's spray."
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