“The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows.”

Holidays http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19219 (1878).

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American poet 1807–1882

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