The Children's Hour And Other Poems ; Paul Revere's Ride And Other Poems
The Children's Hour And Other Poems ; Paul Revere's Ride And Other Poems
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
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Eyes full of laughter, neck and shoulders bare, A thin slip of a girl, like a new moon, Sure to be roimded into beauty soon, ^ The inn bore the name of the Earl of Halifax. It was com- mon before the Bevolntion to name taverns after the king or some notable, and the Earl of Halifax was a prominent English states- man, who bad been prime minister of Greorge L ^ Once a week the Flying Stage-coach was driven by John Stavers, the inn-keeper, from Portsmouth to Boston. " The car- riage," says Mr. T.... B. Aldrich in his pleasant book, An Old Town by the Sea, ** was a two-horse curricle, wide enough to accommodate three passengers. The fare was thirteen shillings and sixpence sterling per head. The curricle was presently superseded by a series of fat yellow coaches, one of which — nearly a century later, and long after that pleasant mode of travel had fallen obsolete — was the cause of much mental tribulation to the writer of this chronicle." Readers of The Story of a Bad Boy will guess to what Mr.
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