Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

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Original Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Poets." Keramos and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Company/London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1878, I. 12.

Current Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadswoth. "The Poets." Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 12.