Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine in 1807. In 1858 he write the poem about his youth in that ton. One stanza was about the battle between the USS Enterprise and HMS Boxer.
"I remember the sea-fight far way,
How it thundered over the tide!
And the dead captains, as they lay
In their graves o'erlooking the tranquil bay
Where they in battle died.
And the sound of that mournful song
Goes through me with a thrill:
"A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts."
Getting Literary On Us. --Brock-Perry
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