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Bibliography: The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Title
- The Song of Hiawatha
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Date
- 1855
- Genre
- poetry
- Note Source
- One of Ours Book I, Chap. 17
- Note Relating to Cather
- Claude's mother murmured softly in her quavering voice: "Ever thicker, thicker, thicker,/Froze the ice on lake and river;/Ever deeper, deeper, deeper,/Fell the snow o'er all the landscape"; the lines are from "The Famine."