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Editing Longfellow

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From: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
Date: 20061226
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We ordinary folk have to submit to your editing our letters, but Henry Wadsworth Longfellow should not similarly be subject to your power: In your 12/23 editorial you omitted "the" from the first line of his poem. He wrote "I heard the bells on Christmas day," which has eight syllables, matched by eight syllables in the next line, "Their old, familiar carols play."

Other than that, you done good - the various quotes made for enjoyable, thought-provoking reading. Thank you .

Fern Stearns

Milford

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