Impressions in and about Portland, Maine . CITY HALL Adown the busy street we pass where onceOur citys pride reflected hom her ciomeDeparting day ; its last bright golden gleamFalling on wearied traveller hastning home. Its simple grandeur tilled our hearts alikeWith joy and veneration. For we sawLpreared in stone, a massive shapely pileKeeping its guard oer order and oer law. Destroying flames have done their cruel workHut from the past, a host of memories riseAnd cling around thy dear familiar walls,No more uplifted to the waiting skies. — Carrie TJiompson Loi< THE LONGFELLOW HOUSE H
Impressions in and about Portland, Maine . CITY HALL Adown the busy street we pass where onceOur citys pride reflected hom her ciomeDeparting day ; its last bright golden gleamFalling on wearied traveller hastning home. Its simple grandeur tilled our hearts alikeWith joy and veneration. For we sawLpreared in stone, a massive shapely pileKeeping its guard oer order and oer law. Destroying flames have done their cruel workHut from the past, a host of memories riseAnd cling around thy dear familiar walls,No more uplifted to the waiting skies. — Carrie TJiompson Loi< THE LONGFELLOW HOUSE Heres General Peleg WadswortlVs hat, A doughty patriot was he,When George the Third uneasy sat Upon his throne across the is the sword the generals son, Lieutenant Alexander, woreUnsheathed, until the war was done Which cut the bonds our sailors bore. And here memorials are shown Of Henry Wadsworth, young and brave,Who made our banner known And found at Tripoli his -Enterprise once bore Lies here, robbed of its colors bright ,A cutlass from the Boxers store Recalls that deadly naval fight. AH these are shown the eager guest Whose feet the ancient threshold wear,But not for these the pilgrim quest Of those who to this house warrior has his meed of praise, But here the stranger seeks the shrineOf him who sang of loves sweet ways With lips aglow with hre divine. 23 For his sake does the generals sword Receive the homage given might ;But mightier is the poets word Flashed from its scabbard for the honor to the grandsire b
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