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Article: Trivia Q&A.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- June 19, 2003
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Byline: Tina Beaumont-Clay
Q: Where can I find the words to the poem "Hiawatha"? I know it's a long poem and I don't remember who wrote it, but I need it; I need it bad. _M.S.
A: Any librarian or bookstore clerk can put his hands on a copy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 5,314-line poem, written over the course of almost a year in 1854 and 1855.
I'd love to offer it up to you here, but Abby and the others wouldn't agree to give up the space. So here's just a few of the most-memorized lines, from Chapter 3, "Hiawatha's Childhood": "By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, ...
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