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This alternates between tales of Longfellow‘s life and a modern church congregation as it prepares for its Christmas concert. Even if the tales from Longfellow‘s life didn‘t exactly compliment the stories from modern times, I truly enjoyed this book. The reader learns different perspectives among the church members and about their own struggles and hopes. This is more serious and meaningful compared to many sugary holiday reads.

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“On Christmas Day, the promise of peace offered a soft and shining light in dark times, an eternal flame that warfare could not douse, nor hatred extinguish.”

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Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Accomplished the poetry square with these Longfellow poems a year in the reading.

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Wow, that took over a year to finish all of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow‘s poems! Reading intermittently, that is. I enjoy his style. It was old-fashioned in his time, but he had interesting subjects. I do think the hype about The Song of Hiawatha was justified. He did a lot of translations that I kind of skimmed through.

This poem of grief resonates with me

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December 14th #ChristmasCheer Bell #WinterGames24 #HolidayBookDragons @StayCurious @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks