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The Children's Hour
Children's Hour, The,poem by Longfellow, published in Birds of Passage (1860). Ten jocund quatrains describe the nightly descent upon the poet's study of his three “blue-eyed banditti” daughters, “grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair.”
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