Chorus of the Eumenides: ... Never by lapse of time The sou… - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Chorus of the Eumenides: ...
Never by lapse of time
The soul defaced by crime
Into its former self returns again;
For every guilty deed
Holds in itself the seed
Of retribution and undying pain. Never shall be the loss
Restored, till Hath purified them with his heavenly fires;
Then what was lost is won,
And the new life begun,
Kindled with nobler passions and desires.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (27 February 1807 – 24 March 1882) was an American poet and one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets.

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Alternative Names: Henry W. Longfellow • H. W. Longfellow • Longfellow

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Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves
that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

A noble type of good.
Heroic womanhood.

Chorus of the Eumenides: ... Never by lapse of time The soul defaced by crime Into its former self returns again; For every guilty deed Holds in itse… - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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