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William Butler Yeats Quotes: Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.
         

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.


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