| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | February 27 | | Longfellow | | By Craven Langstroth Betts (1853–1941) |
| | (Born Feb. 27, 1807)
THE NEW-WORLD’S sweetest singer! Time may lay | |
| Rude touch on some, thy betters, yet for thee, | |
| Thy seat is where the throned immortals be, | |
| The chaste affections answering to thy sway. | |
| As fair, as fresh as children of the May, | 5 |
| Thy verse springs up from wood and sun-bathed lea, | |
| Yet oft the rhythmic cadence of the sea. | |
| Rolls ’neath thy song and speeds its shining way. | |
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| Thy borrowed robes, even, thou wear’st with grace; | |
| Such grace our English buckram seldom yields; | 10 |
| Through thee the grave Italian takes his place | |
| Among us; but across Acadian fields | |
| Who is it moves with rapt and pensive face? | |
| Evangeline, his heart thy love reveals! | | | | |
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