SHORT WEEK

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After yesterday’s brief item following lengthy items on the weekend, I have decided that the rest of the week will be Short Week, brief but interesting items.

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The heights by great men reached and kept 

Were not attained by sudden flight,

But they, while their companions slept,

Were toiling upward in the night.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The stanza is from a poem The Ladder of St Augustin, a largely unreadable poem that expands the Eastern philosophy that that each individual has in his /her consciousness a ladder to the celestial or immortal perception of life.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Although he became the most popular American poet of his day and had success overseas, he has been criticized for imitating European styles and writing poetry that was too sentimental.

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