| Show 1 S Place in W Worlds Literature V MRS NS EVA EMERY ImERY DYES AT tIER HER IN LONGFELLOW HOUSE PORTLAND 1 S rv Ic OH Ott more than 40 years year ear one aile man Inell manI F 1 4 heM held undisputed sway at the sum lIum sumI I I mutt of tn tIle the Parnassus Nowhere dH I he lie give us tie the tho 0 01 or of Milton the of Shakespeare the philosophy of at Wordsworth und and let jet two decade atter ut at utter ter his him death I remains the poet 1051 of ot the he people er front from the lie Scottish Highlands to Call Calt formula exults in Excelsior theS the tho S of Life Is I almost Scripture truth In III a II down tongues tongue The Tho Bridge c The fhe Day DIlY I f Is Done Domie arc aro un ung train th to the tue RIo HIo Gran Grande Grende t and I l Is III a n synonym ton for constan constancy I C cy ul on Ott t two tO 0 continents What l is IA the tho e secret What was ties u the I secret of Irving In Iii In tn I France rance and SItu Dickens III In tho 1111 Their genial humanity a as It unlocks unlock the listening heart an and anil admits the sInger finger tit lt its Doll onn hopes hope emotions ii U nd rid sorrows touches the Ihl heart of ot the tho orld and It te OH If It with unseen wings An Au ang angel h touched It its II And MiJ lId whispers In It its II song here hunt thuu stayed 10 so I In him tare are no WI violent gusts of oC pa pas JUl i ilion lion don h he does doel II belong to tel the It Ir tv I school tho tha gloomy gloom weird and ami I melancholy but 11 In the grandeur o of sublimity he hi hidA hide hid 1 A As Alone one by one aliI the hopes hopet depart HI He resolute and amid calm caIrn We rend read poets poet thought and ex OX expression UR UI but In Longfellow W we WI feel tile the pulse puls of nf H it personal II U UI thy the lie of if H II 4 great heart t th of or II e of manhood and of conscious lu lii the tue song w vv WI II tin tilt self Heir h here re lre youSh REbEl the longings of le Is II the mutt mini In Iii Inmany many land landi and aliI here the aged baid at athi athis hi his own revered by a nation Not as ax H 14 I man Inan of the HOI Id did 1011 Long Longfellow fellow look Jook upon other othel lands not a as RI II it tourist dill our aliI pilgrim Ito 10 o beyond the tea sea hut but an as 1 a scholar scholm suit and a Ii poet Wo WoJ e see gee In fancy rancy tho tile youth lingering along g the ulley ulle of tho Loire along the Dutch wharves alit III In the streets street of ot lvery or turret cathedral and cur curvIng curving ing heam kindles hi his tune fancy smut and ever fler every line hue of description reveals the uplifting pint of the thus seer Deer He Ifs links link the ideal Ident the real leal he ht touches common life lICe mid It glows glow with Idyllic he ho touches grosser r cares carel and alit the they Fold Foil their tents like the Arabs abs And Amid as steal steel away WIlY Favored b by lack laci of International copyright Longfellow bees became me better ri read ad In iii England th than pad find the tho Pacific scraps from train The rite rh Psalm of Life Well the first fist foreign quotations quotation on funs fans eclectic theory theon that thit till all Unit that IR is lIt III In the tIle great poets U Is not ii I hat In is na national III In them then hut hilt what Is universal gl gave him tutu a cosmopolitan bent bout that fits him not flEEt for America alone hut but for the world And Amid yet It h hwan was wan most t successful In the tile of our cur 0 as own n a I md The of ot Is In no M exotic Our OUI stoat neat livers Ilver of the tho WI wust HI ai iota Ift a associated forever with 1 and ald th these H VII tire lire peopled 1 A II death I lf lis a beauty an as I to Iti UN Wi as III any to the dweller of the 01 or the Ayr Ayn There am sic line Uriel In classic an as 1111 any In III Homer suggestive HI II all any picture wont nord old lit of the thit old 0 Greek a maiden rare ua nu How our rou rough h IndIan names name III In the hand of I a it had what a magnificent hUI I those ho old hel in tim the thi scene icene iceney I my y of lx In qu quest lIt t of the fleet hi lug l l we follow the Acadian girl fir trl I through the somber with tort forests in tn the he green Opelousas and andoVer andover over oer the limitless lit where Thio th the tel Valley precipitate tate lute leaps leap the Nebraska Now III In nol campB and In the tho battle baILIe fichu of or the 1111 army Now Kow III in Deluded hamlet In towns tonni and populous cities lint until II at nt last lilt 1111 SIde Ride by aIde In their ta the lovers loore are And nd from It rocky caverns avern the deep dp voiced neighboring ocean Speaks mind In accent disconsolate nn en n swore or the wall vaIl of the forest What Whitt hand but that of or an artist could have liae pictured d so o 0 briefly the grand dean deo the requiem of ended elided life the Transcendental Shelley Browning or nr meditative Tennyson would novel never hove ve written the childlike marvel of Hiawatha Our OUI laurels stood unrivaled when hi his characters character wore Were Indiana woodpeckers woodpecker rabbits rabbit and ravens raven Bran every line and ever every of or ha has the same name wonderful eh chant of ot coun coon ill Urn tIre lr and wigwam a es 11 when hn bo boa boi lie He the ba beet t of all nil musicians of if beauty 10 love and longing Hung of death and end lit Ufa lite undying In the tho iRland of at the time Blessed In the Kingdom of Ponemah III lit Ih the land hand of the tue Hereafter We hear again the droning singer r the undertone of ot the theo sighing forest anti and leothe seethe see man the tile shadow of or a H primitive people pl revel III In end endless I I childhood Everywhere h ht ha has boa aught the true Irue IndIan repetition tion thill thought Indian sentiment Mid Indian expression Hiawatha will live n us 1 u ii I of Indian legend and Indian life poetry a am poetry otry ought appeals to the time Imagination II H He In III Introduces his gothic style tyle of beauty among TIm The murmuring pines pinel and the hemlocks tint not lets less than In that quaint old city who whose ver very The splendid that adorned 1 those thole daya of at old Stately like queens attended I Knights who bore the tho Fleece of at Gold bid GoldI The Tile Tales rules full of a Wayside Inn the I Tales of or New lW I hll have in iii tiara a dash h of own J music tousle The Time Saga of KinK King Olaf Olar re with the m I tush ush and roar mite of ocean ocen tin thy clash of It minor armor and the challenge I I f fI fit of Thor With consummate skill has hili I fr i Longfellow the thu wind and the r WilliS stat the Iho fierce Norsemen con uon contending tending on Oil their theli dragon ships Ills every ver utterance Is lit with the spirit S of ot song that like lila his own brook Hll Slips down clown through stones atones j I with endless laughter I prom the tugged mugged grandeur of t Acre to 10 the thi thereal of or t MaJ Maidenhood we WI truce trace not the novel novelI I ift 1st t not hot the dramatist but hut the poet pot puro pure and simple not like th the poets poet oC or orthe the Old World but bounding with thu tho I j S blood of the new Just flavored with the hue spice of till nil time and all lands land it There here 1 Is II no nn better gauge of ot national I character than thun a Il national poet Vita 1 great poet is II h hI he that touches the coma com common S mon people and amid th the masse malle with the fervor of hi his own song IonIC Poe 1 My Myron iy ron may count th their r de da devotees S by th the thousand but they never ld led 1 11 mu nation Th Their lr vacant vestments but within there timers I Is no heart i deluded votaries stupefied in that S atmosphere turn train from the i S breath of health and make ii furl gud of nf art and anti passion and empty sound I I IThe Th The true truo poet lott burns bums with the love of truth he conceals no lii doubtful morality S Sundom under a 0 glittering guise Iule but hut underneath j all nl Is III H II solid substratum of alabaster I whiteness tHud Study Longfellow as al much muchas I 1 as up yo you 0 will and amid you OU will find nothing I hut but purity vi n the tita gypsy I Is 14 as UI untainted as am the Puritan n maiden malden His HI chaste touch Illumined the commonest truths truth I and arid awakened tho the saddest h art to en endurance endurance j durance durne resolve and endeavor He lie de developed Q S our rapacity capacity for Intellectual S pleasure he ha taught the nation hence henceforth henceforth 1 forth hi his pure spirit will breathe In our g forests and ov over r the prairies national i elevating ennobling I In hi all RII Longfellow fulfilled hi his own t tol S I conception ol elIon of a poet boe ver verse i iRI t l Was RI tender musical and tand terse tere I The Inspiration the delight ill Th The gleam th the tho glory lor the swift flight or Of thoughts thought 10 that tha t th they p tl em The revelation of the dream I f fAll All these ivere ere his but with them earn I Ien Vo Ni en envy of or soothers another fame Came I I Ilie He lie did cUrt not riot timid hit his sleep lell less sweet For Fat 00 music mu I on some som neighboring street treel I INor Nor i lu uniting rustlIng hem hear In lii every bree breese t I IThe The laurels of Honor end and net blessings on hi his head hell S While hile living good report when hen deal dead I 1 IWho Who not riot too eager ear for tar renown renon Accepts but does doe not clutch the crown I |
