Wadsworth Longfellow

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    “The shades of night were falling fast,
    As through an Alpine village passed
    A youth, who bore, ‘mid snow and ice,
    A banner with the strange device,
    Excelsior!”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “All are architects of Fate,
    Working in these walls of Time;
    Some with massive deeds and great,
    Some with ornaments of rhyme.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (20th century)