Wadsworth Longfellow

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    “Half of my life is gone, and I have let
    The years slip from me and have not fulfilled
    The aspiration of my youth, to build
    Some tower of song with lofty parapet.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “Pride and humiliation hand in hand
    Walked with them through the world where’er they went;
    Trampled and beaten were they as the sand,
    And yet unshaken as the continent.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)