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  • "One if by land, and two, if by sea; and I on the opposite shore will be"
  • He finished writing "Evangeline" on his 40th birthday
  • Listen, my children, & you shall hear, he was born Feb. 27, 1807 in Portland (hey, he was the poet, not me)
  • The information center at Minnehaha Park (off Hiawatha Ave.) is a replica of this poet's home in Massachusetts
  • "Homeward now went Hiawatha; pleasant was the landscape round him, pleasant was the air above him"
  • In 1861 this poet wrote about "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"
  • I used the meter of the Finnish epic "Kalevala" as the basis for that of "The Song of Hiawatha"
  • One of his most famous heroes was an Ojibwa Indian who married Minnehaha
  • This poet who wrote "I shot an arrow in the air..." was born in Portland
  • A stamp commemorating this poet includes a scene from his poem "Paul Revere's Ride"
  • The allusion "ships that pass in the night" is from this American poet's "Tales of a Wayside Inn"
  • A familiar poem by him begins, "Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands"
  • "The Poet of the Commonplace", "The Children's Poet"
  • "Wayside Inn" tale spinner(10)
  • This author's collection "Tales of a Wayside Inn" is set at the Red Horse Tavern in Sudbury, Massachusetts
  • In December 1839 he penned the line, "It was the schooner Hesperus that sailed the wintry sea"

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