The Daily Maine Fact

"Then read from the treasured volume
The poem of thy choice,
And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice."

- From "The Day is Done," by Portland native Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He died on this date in 1882.
(Source: Maine: A Literary Chronicle, W. Storrs Lee, editor. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968)