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[Poems by Longfellow in] Final memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)

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[The same wind blowing]

To J. T. Fields.

Epitaph

[What is autobiography]

[When you ask one friend to dine]

[The soldier asked for bread]

[Better juice of vine]

FRAGMENTS OF VERSE.

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Epitaph

On a Maid-of-all-Work.

Here a maid-of-all-work
Her rest doth take;
When alive, she touched nothing
She did not break.