“Show me the place.”
Duke Senior
in As You Like It (2.1)
87: Portland, Maine—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House; Spring 2002
I drove one year to Portland, Maine—
I guess I really should explain:
I’d gone to see another place
Where Longfellow had left a trace—
An early home—a museum now—
Such fame results in this somehow.
A famous poem takes place there—
It’s “My Lost Youth,” and (if you care)
I’ve memorized it—took a while—
But now it’s in my memory file!
Link to poem.
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