Longfellow

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“Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!—
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

“Long, long, afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

“Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)