Authors and Friends (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Every year when the lilac buds begin to burst their sheaths and until the full-blown clusters have spent themselves in the early summer air, the remembrance of Longfellow - something of his presence wakes with us in the morning and recurs with every fragrant breeze. Now is the time to come to Cambridge, he would say the lilacs are getting ready to receive you.

It was the most natural thing in the world that he Should care for this common flower, because in spite of a fine separateness from dusty levels which every one felt who approached him, he was first Of all a seer Of beauty in common things and a singer to the universal heart.

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