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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
My Lost Youth

The poet says he often thinks of the sea town where he spent his boyhood.
The memory brings back things of his youth and a verse of a Lapland song:

'A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.'

By itself, this verse is not very definite in meaning. (The song it came
from would give it significance with context and music.) Longfellow uses it to
end each of the ten stanzas of "My Lost Youth." The song, each time it is
heard, reflects the life of the thing the poet has just remembered. ...

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