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Come on guys...Its not that bad!

Posted by Bruce Kahl on August 10, 2000

In Reply to: The Wreck of the Hesperus posted by Barney on August 10, 2000

It's Longfellow, for cryin' out loud!! Jeesh!!
( uh oh--a Minced oath? )

Longfellow had a gift for writing simple and romantic stories. He lacked the depth of some of his contemporaries but his stuff is very entertaining. How about "The Village Blacksmith."

This and the Hollow Men by Eliot--"We are the hollow men, heads filled with straw..." was my intro to poetry:

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
A fisherman stood aghast,
To see the form of a maiden fair,
Lashed close to a drifting mast.

The salt sea was frozen on her breast,
The salt tears in her eyes;
And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed,
On the billows fall and rise.

Such was the wreck of the Hesperus,
In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman's Woe!

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