Social Commentaries
Poetic Aphorisms: Rhymes
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Social Commentaries
If perhaps these rhymes of mine should sound not well in strangers' ears,
They have only to bethink them that it happens so with theirs;
For so long as words, like mortals, call a fatherland their own,
They will be most highly valued where they are best and longest known.
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Codex Note
Translated by Longfellow from Friedrich von Logau, German
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Poetic Aphorisms: Rhymes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/longfellow/382/.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Poetic Aphorisms: Rhymes.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/longfellow/382/.
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