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Tales of a Wayside Inn

Tales of a Wayside Inn is a collection of poems by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The book, published in 1863, depicts a group of people at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts as each tells a story in the form of a poem.

“All things come round to him who will but wait.”
Pt. I, The Student's Tale.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

“And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night.”
Pt. I, The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride, st. 8.
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“And suddenly through the drifting brume
The blare of the horns began to ring.”
King Olaf's War-Horns, st. 2.
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“A town that boasts inhabitants like me
Can have no lack of good society.”
Pt. I, The Poet's Tale: The Birds of Killingworth.
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