“Ye are better than all the ballads that ever were sung or said; for ye are living poems, and all the rest are dead.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Children" (1858), stanza 9

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About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807 – 1882

American poet, author of 'The Song of Hiawatha' and 'Paul Revere's Ride'.

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