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Greetings from Longfellow
Greetings from Longfellow
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and "Evangeline". He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and was one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets.

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    Greetings from Longfellow - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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    Title: Greetings from Longfellow

    Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Release Date: November 4, 2007 [eBook #23332]

    Language: English

    Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

    ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREETINGS FROM LONGFELLOW***

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    Sail on, O Ship of State!

    Sail on, O Union, strong and great!

    Humanity with all its fears,

    With all the hopes of future years,

    Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

    We know what Master laid thy keel,

    What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,

    Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,

    What anvils rang, what hammers beat,

    In what a forge and what a heat

    Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!

    Fear not each sudden sound and shock,

    ’T is of

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