“Read from some humbler poet,
Whose songs gushed from his heart,
As showers from the clouds of summer,
Or tears from the eyelids start.”

—  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

St. 7.
The Day is Done (1845)

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American poet 1807–1882

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