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AUTHORS AND FRIENDS by ANNIE FIELDS
'"The Company of the Leaf" wore laurel chaplets "whose lusty green may
not appaired be." They represent the brave and steadfast of all ages,
the great knights and champions, the constant lovers and pure women of
past and present times.'
Keping beautie fresh and greene
For there nis storme that ne may hem deface.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER.
CONTENTS
LONGFELLOW: 1807-1882
GLIMPSES OF EMERSON
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS AND UNPUBLISHED LETTERS
DAYS WITH MRS. STOWE
CELIA THAXTER
WHITTIER: NOTES OF HIS LIFE AND OF HIS FRIENDSHIPS
TENNYSON
LADY TENNYSON
LONGFELLOW: 1807-1882
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 everyone 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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