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Longfellow Is To Poetry What The Barrel-organ Is To Music.
-Van Wyck Brooks
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Longfellow Is To Poetry What The Barrel-organ
Van Wyck Brooks
Longfellow Is To Poetry What The Barrel-organ Is To Music.
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