Wide through the landscape of his dreams
The lordly Niger followed;
Beneath the palm trees on the plain,
Once more a king he strode.


The Slave's Dream, in Poems on Slavery, 1842

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger followed; Beneath the palm trees on the plain, Once more a king he strode.

Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger followed; Beneath the palm trees on the plain, Once more a king he strode.

Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger followed; Beneath the palm trees on the plain, Once more a king he strode.

Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger followed; Beneath the palm trees on the plain, Once more a king he strode.