Longfellow

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“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)

“It whispered to the fields of corn,
“Bow down, and hail the coming morn.”

It shouted through the belfry tower,
“Awake, O bell! proclaim the hour.”

It crossed the churchyard with a sigh,
And said, “Not yet! in quiet lie.””
—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)