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    Charles Godfrey Leland

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    It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride. ↗


    — Charles Godfrey Leland

    #before #between #breeze #bride #call

    The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won. ↗


    — Charles Godfrey Leland

    #deserve #every #lovely #may #woman

    They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train. ↗


    — Charles Godfrey Leland

    #dream #loveliness #saw #train

    To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in. ↗


    — Charles Godfrey Leland

    #could #find #him #led #never






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    Early life
    Leland was born to Charles Leland a commission merchant and Charlotte Godfrey on 15 August 1824 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Leland had encouraged her as a young woman to consider writing as a career which Charles Godfrey Leland did with some success. Translations
    Leland translated to English the collective works of the German Romanticist Heinrich Heine as well as poems by Joseph Victor von Scheffel.

    Leland worked in journalism travelled extensively and became interested in folklore and folk linguistics publishing books and articles on American and European languages and folk traditions. Charles Godfrey Leland (August 15 1824 – March 20 1903) was an American humorist and folklorist born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He was educated at Princeton University and in Europe.

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