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The Rivulet and
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The Hymn of the Moravian Nuns appeared in the
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Gazette collection, and have never disappeared from the poetic cyclopædias. The volume included fourteen of Longfellow's youthful effusions, only six of which he saw fit to preserve; dropping behind him, perhaps wisely, the
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Dirge Over a Nameless Grave,
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Thanksgiving,
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The Angler's Song,
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Autumnal Nightfall,
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A Song of Savoy,
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Italian Scenery,
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The Venetian Gondolier, and
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The Sea Diver. He himself says of those which he preserved that they were all written before the age of nineteen, and this is obvious from the very date of the volume. Even in the rejected poems the reader recognizes an easy command of the simpler forms of melody, and a quick though not profound feeling for external nature. Where he subsequently revises these poems, however, the changes are apt to be verbal only, and all evidently matters of the ear. Thus in reprinting
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The Woods in Winter,
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On the gray maple's crusted bark Its tender shoots the hoarfrost nips; Whilst in the frozen fountain--hark! His piercing beak the bittern dips.
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Gazette three articles in prose, quite in Irving's manner, including a few verses. All these attracted some attention at the time. Mr. Parsons, the proprietor of the magazine, was thoroughly convinced of the vigor and originality of the young man's mind, and informed him that one of his poems,
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Autumnal Nightfall, had been attributed to Bryant, while his name was mentioned in the
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Galaxy on a level with that of Bryant and Percival. The leadership of Bryant was of course unquestioned at that period, and Longfellow many years after acknowledged to that poet his indebtedness, saying,
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When I look back upon my early years, I cannot but smile to see how much in them is really yours. It was an involuntary imitation, which I most readily confess.
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Literary Gazette itself are three prose studies, distinctly after the manner of Irving, and headed by a very un-American title,
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The Lay Monastery. There is a singular parallelism between this fanciful title and the similar transformation in verse, at about the same time, in the
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Hymn of the Moravian Nuns