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Show ed m new pottery, and tht panel kept for twenty-live yer and then sold That waa twenty yturi Iko. V tlh th paealng. ? tlie riaque tha trediMon fadel, an J only tty waa t revived. whi one of the new proprietor expreeaea hit -ih to recover the little red clay panel. ; POET'S ELflLf VM SOUGHT Longfellow Verse Comet to Light PORTLAND, M, July tl (By A. P A brief and hitherto unpublished unpub-lished poetlo flight of LeMiffellow. written when ho was II years old. baa coma to Haiti t here. Tho vera and the blatory connected, with ' It waa revealed by the aearch of Mu fua Umton, an elderly potter, for a nondeacrlpt pottery plague, lone; ainra vantahad. Conceived while the youthful Ijo-ifffliw waa waichina a potter worklnc at hla wheel, tho veraa ta believed to have aai the saane source of Inaplratlon whUa, In later years, found Ha aaproaaioa In "KrtTnoi." As related bY Mr. Lamson. one of tha favorite haunta af Lou a; fallow aa a boy was the small pottery of benjamin bodge, on Brattle street. lxns;reilow. watchlns; a veaeei tak-Ina tak-Ina shape under the flngra of tho old potter, one day scrawled four Una of verse on a slip of paprv "No haadlcraftman'a art Can to our art oemparo; We pottara make our pot Of what wo potters aro. ' Then he slipped sway to Join hla companions. Benjamin Uodge, ab-aant ab-aant from his task, returned and found the paper. .And Kt-Mie-t l&e. lines srasped hla fancy, no rote , them on a plaque of lay an i had It baked. For years tha panel buns over his wheel. A new firm f rt- |