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Title: The Children's Longfellow
Told in Prose

Author: Doris Hayman

Release Date: March 18, 2009 [EBook #28352]

Language: English

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THE CHILDREN'S

LONGFELLOW

TOLD IN PROSE BY

DORIS HAYMAN

_ILLUSTRATED_

GRAHAM & MATLACK

NEW YORK.

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CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION 1

THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP 3

HIAWATHA 12

KING ROBERT OF SICILY 26

THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH 37

THE GOLDEN LEGEND 42

THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH 56

LADY WENTWORTH 67

ELIZABETH 73

THE MONK AND THE ASS 82

EVANGELINE 93

THE FALCON OF SER FEDERIGO 111

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LONGFELLOW'S POEMS IN PROSE

The home of the American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, during the
greater part of his life was in the picturesque town of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and there many of his best known poems were written.

The forge of the Village Blacksmith really stood there beneath the
shelter of a "spreading chestnut tree," in Cambridge, and when, as the
town grew larger, the smithy was removed and the tree cut down, all the
school children in Cambridge subscribed together to buy the wood of the
famous tree and had a chair made from it which they gave to the poet.

Longfellow was deeply interested in all Indian lore, and in the poem of
Hiawatha he