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[Sam's Pookie]

I read it in high school, it stuck in my mind.....who wrote it? What is the complete work?

"We folded our tents like the Arabs, and silently stole away"....or very similar.. :rolleyes:

or

"So, we'll fold our tents like the Arabs and silently steal away." This is more like it, I think. :-?

[Sindhu]

I THINK you might be thiking of these lines from Longfellow's poem "The Day is Done"
"And the night shall be filled with music
And the cares that beset the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away."

[Sam's Pookie]

Thanks Sindhu, you are absolutely correct. Junion High School was almost 45 years past, and memory escaped me.

[Tabac]

I THINK you might be thiking of these lines from Longfellow's poem "The Day is Done"
"And the night shall be filled with music
And the cares that beset the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away."

Not very PC for today's situation, but given the times during which it was written, it's quite lovely.