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Be strong! Be good! Be pure!
The right only shall endure;
And all things else are but false pretenses.

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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But as if they watched and waited,
Scanning one another’s motions,
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Follow, follow, gathering flock-wise
Round their victim, sick and wounded,
First a shadow, then a sorrow,
Till the air is dark with anguish.

One if by land, two if by sea.

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And, with his sickle keen,
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