Hello and welcome back to The Daily Poet here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network.

I'm David Kern.

First of all, before I read today's poem, I just need to say thank you so much to all of the kids out there who memorized Robert Lewis Stevenson poems and posted their recitations

on social media. I was blown away and not only by the number of you who submitted poems,

but also by the quality of your recitations. So let me just say, great job to everybody.

I'll be making an announcement as soon as possible

about all the winners. There were so many of them, so many submissions that it's going to take

me a little bit to listen to all of them and then figure out who the winners are. But this is what

we're going to do. We're going to pick three winners from different age groups, so one for the older

kids, one for the middle grade kids, and then are the,

you know, older elementary kids and then one for the younger kids. And we're going to play

each of the winners on the show. So if you win, your audio will appear in this podcast. So

that's going to be the first part. And then also, each of the winners will be receiving their

choice of a couple of options

of beautifully bound folio books, either collections of verse or some fairy tales, things like that.

So we're going to let each family choose from a couple of different options. We're going to do

this giveaway periodically. I don't know if we'll get to it monthly,

but we're at least do it once a quarter. So we'll try to give you enough lead time to memorize and record your recitations. But great job to everybody who did that. And like I said,

we will have our winners announced very soon, as soon as possible. And thank you for being so

patient with me. Okay, today's poem is by henry wadsworth

longfellow somebody who i was shocked to a notice that i have never read from on this show i have yet to read a

longfellow poem here on the daily poem so it seems like high time to do that so i'm going to read a selection

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