“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week”

“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week” is a saying that has been printed on many images
   
 
Wikipedia: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems “Paul Revere’s Ride”, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.
 
Wikipedia: Kavanagh (novel)
Kavanagh is a novel by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
 
Overview
Longfellow began writing the story in 1847 and it was published in 1849. Kavanagh is the story of a country romance. Besides a character named Kavanagh, among its characters is a school teacher named Mr. Churchill, who has always planned to write a romance, but whose procrastination never allows him to start, until late in life he resigns himself to his “destiny”.
 
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11 July 1852,The Daily Delta (New Orleans, LA), pg. 2, col. 4:
Longfellow, in his prose tale of “Kavanagh,” calls Sunday the golden clasp which binds together the volume of the week. All persons connected with the Press endorse the simile, only they think the clasp rather slender fp such a volume—the holiday but a brief respite for so many hours of wearisome toil. The gold, too—alas!—often disappears with the setting of the Sabbath sun,—two brilliant yellownesses disappeaing together!
 
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22 December 1852, Buffalo (NY) Express, pg. 3, col. 1:
LONGFELLOW calls Sunday the “golden clasp which binds together the volume of the week.”
 
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13 January 1853, Whig State Journal (Harrisburg, PA), pg. 1, col. 3:
Longfellow, in his prose tale of “Kavanagh,” calls Sunday the golden clasp which binds together the volume of the week
   
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11:29 AM · Mar 9, 2025