A friend wrote a book about grief where she references the life of Longfellow and how much he went through at a relatively young age. It didn’t take much for something to become fatal. I believe that he buried two children and a wife by the time he was 30 or so. It left its mark on him which ends up in some of his later poems. The book’s title, Voices of the Night, and the poem Psalm to Life are included. In any case, Judith, I am very glad that you are on the mend and back with us.
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