Wadsworth Longfellow

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    “Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth,
    To some good angel leave the rest;
    For Time will teach thee soon the truth,
    There are no birds in last year’s nest!”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

    “There in the twilight cold and gray,
    Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay,
    And from the sky, serene and far,
    A voice fell, like a falling star,
    Excelsior!”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “Listen, my children, and you shall hear
    Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
    On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
    Hardly a man is now alive
    Who remembers that famous day and year.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)