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Show Happy Youngsters in Home of Longfellow 1 have called It "the poetry school," because II was In the house of poet, been nee we lived In an atmosphere atmos-phere of poetry and sow the birth of many of the beloved poet's best-known best-known works, saw other poets and writers, his friends and advisers, comic? back and forth to discuss with him the greatest poetical work of all time,, the "Divine Comedy" of Dante. But I also call It so because many of us children were ourselves descended from or related to poets. In fact, poetry and poets formed so large s part of our school tradition that we took them very much for granted. If anyone had said to me, "Is not' your grandfather a poet?" I should probably have replied, "Why, yea '. Isn't ynursT The Longfellow children even made jokes shout poetry, In which their futher and their unrie, Itev. Samuel Longfellow, a writer of lovely verses snd hymns, aided and abetted them. A favorite breakfast dish of the family was battercakes baked In cups, which puffed out In the baking till they were mostly crust snd little Inside. These were generally known as popovers," but the Longfellow children chil-dren called them "poetry cakes" "because," they explained, with great gusto, "there's nothing tn tbeml" and this Joke their father relished bugely. From "An Echo From Par-nsssas," Par-nsssas," by Henrietta Dans Eklnner. |