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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Cape Elizabeth, Maine
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow often walked from Portland to visit this lighthouse. The keepers were his friends, and it is believed he sat here for inspiration for his poem "The Lighthouse": "Sail on; Sail on ye stately ships; And with your floating bridge the ocean span; Be mine to guard this light from all eclipse Be yours to bring man near unto man."
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Cape Elizabeth, Maine · United States

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