25 May 2009

POW & MIA: Never Forgotten

This is an excerpt from “The Battle of Lovell’s Pond”, the first poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at the age of 13, and published in the Portland Gazette, November 17, 1820: The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone tells [...]