We’re up to page 40a and the ninth page we’ve posted. This page offers us the Norwood typeface, and two (high-resolution & print- usable) ornament images un-labeled by anything but their inventory call numbers - so they are either from a no-name face, or perhaps they are Norwood ornaments. We cannot say…

The piece typeset as their Norwood sample is a goodly portion of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem from “Prelude” in his collection Voices of the Night. (Ordinarily set as poetry, we’re guessing that they wanted to show off their Norwood face in a more conventional prose format.)

Pleasant it was, when woods were green,
And winds were soft and low,
To lie amid some sylvan scene.
Where, the long drooping boughs between,
Shadows dark and sunlight sheen
Alternate come and go;

Or where the denser grove receives
No sunlight from above,
But the dark foliage interweaves
In one unbroken roof of leaves,
Underneath whose sloping eaves
The shadows hardly move.
(etc…)

You can read about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at wikipedia. He was one of the most popular American poets/writers of his time, although his popularity has diminished since its peak in the mid-19th century and now his poetry tends to be regarded as somewhat singsongy and derivative.

Our first and still favorite introduction to Longfellow was via the delightful The Bullwinkle Show - during the episodic “Bullwinkle’s Corner”, he variously performed “The Arrow and the Song” as well as “The Village Blacksmith” (which we can’t locate online, or we would share it with you, too) with his usual moosey charm & panache. (You can listen to and/or read a straight-up rendering of “The Village Blacksmith” here.)

And you can read “Prelude” here, and find “Prelude” & other poems in The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at Project Gutenberg.

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