Quote of the Day (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, on the ‘Gift and Ministry of Song’)

"Yes; for the gift and ministry of Song

Have something in them so divinely sweet,

It can assuage the bitterness of wrong;

Not in the clamor of the crowded street,

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,

But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Poets,” from A Book of Sonnets, Part II (1878)