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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1855

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From: Colombo's All Time Great Canadian Quotations
Date: 19940401
Author:John Robert Colombo

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1855

"Should you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberations, As of thunder in the mountains? I should answer, I should tell you, "From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the Northland.""

These are the heavily accented opening lines of The Song of Hiawatha (1855), written by the American poet and ...

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