“Show me the place.”
Duke Senior
in As You Like It (2.1)
96: The House of the Seven Gables; Salem, Massachusetts
We saw the house that Hawthorne used
For that most famous tale
He published (1851)—
Museum now (much for sale).
The Ingersolls had owned the house—
They were some Hawthorne kin—
And now it is a famous spot—
Much more than it had been.
I wonder now—the years gone by—
Though folks still come to look—
Do you think many people read
That noted Hawthorne book?
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