THE

Longfellow Birthday-Book.

ARRANGED BY

CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES.

If any thought of mine, or sung or told,
Has ever given delight or consolation,
Ye have repaid me back a thousandfold,
By every friendly sign and salutation,

Dedication to The Seaside and Fireside.

CAMBRIDGe edition.

LONDON:

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS,

BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL.

PREFACE.

In this compilation, what the author has written, either in prose or verse, regarding noted persons, has, with few exceptions, been set opposite their respective birthdays. Here and there, also, passages have been arbitrarily applied to indicate some trait of life or work in the character or characters on whose day they appear. In such cases, the author may say with rea

son,

"Thou hast given

My words a meaning foreign to my thought."

This appropriation of material, however,