Ye are better than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said;
For ye are living poems,
And all the rest are dead. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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