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• Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. . . . He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. . . . Toiling,-rejoicing,-sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.

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  Life, Strong, Morning

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

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• Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.

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  Life, Color, Childhood

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.454

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• Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

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  Life, Temptation, Safe

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.210

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• The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

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  Country, Drama, Perfect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.430

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• Be thy sleep
  Silent as night is, and as deep.

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  Sleep, Night, Silent

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.162

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• No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

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  Sweet, Nature, Tears

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1869). “The Poetical Works”, p.19

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• The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

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  Time, Moving, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

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  Men, Vegetarianism, Land

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.665, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I love thee, as the good love heaven.

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  Life, Good Love, Heaven

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1858). “The Poetical Works”, p.148

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• To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest,
  Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,
  And tremble to be happy with the rest."
  And I make answer: "I am satisfied;
  I dare not ask; I know not what is best;
  God hath already said what shall betide.

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  Answers, Guests, Tomorrow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.338

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• Balder the Beautiful
  Is dead, is dead!

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  Beautiful

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1862). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.179

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• Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

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  Stars, Rain, Clouds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “Hyperion, and Kavanagh”, p.163

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• Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

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  Stars, Flower, Land

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horace Elisha Scudder (1922). “The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow”

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• Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.

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  Soul, Sunbeams, Higher

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.175

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• To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

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  Cities, Tolerance, Towns

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.95

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• To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

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  Faces, Crime, Retribution

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.820, Jazzybee Verlag

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• O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

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  Art, Lessons, Shapes

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.217

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• A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

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  Country, Men, Long

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.110

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• Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

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  Growth, May, Pleasure

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.273

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• Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

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  Death, Sunshine, Dawn

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.106, Wildside Press LLC

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• Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

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  Errors, Mind, Needs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.450

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• One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

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  Country, Land, Opposites

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.472

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• The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer.

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  Teacher, Prayer, Law

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.165

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• Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

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  Life, Art, Long

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

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• Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

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  Hands, Air, Age

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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