Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 3. The Theologian's Tale; Elizabeth
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
'Ah, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!
In the old country the twilight is longer; but here in the forest
Suddenly comes the dark, with hardly a pause in its coming,
Hardly a moment between the two lights, the day and the lamplight;
Yet how grand is the winter! How spotless the snow is, and perfect!'
Thus spake Elizabeth Haddon at nightfall to Hannah the housemaid,
As in the farm-house kitchen, that served for kitchen and parlor,
By the window she sat with her work, and looked on a landscape
White as the great white sheet that Peter saw in his vision,
By the four corners let down and descending out of the heavens.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 642 |
Words | 122 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
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