 Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest ; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews...  Lessons in language, literature, and composition - Page 213by Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 346 pages
...All the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews ; And it floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily. Paddles none had Hiawatha, Paddles none he had or needed, For his thoughts... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 344 pages
...All the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews ; And it floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily. Paddles none had Hiawatha, Paddles none he had or needed, For his thoughts... | |
 | 1855 - 682 pages
...All the lightness of tho birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews ; And it floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in autumn, Like a yellow water lily. 1'addles none had Hiawatha, Paddles none he bad or needed, For his thoughts... | |
 | 1855 - 714 pages
...All the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews ; And it floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in autumn, Like a yellow water-lily. Paddles none had H,awatha, Paddles none ho bad or needed, For his thoughts... | |
 | 1856 - 522 pages
...the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch•s supple sinews ; And it floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily. From the corpse of Mondamin, the friend of man, with whom he wrestles, as... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 346 pages
...All the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews; And it floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily. Faddles none had Hiawatha, Paddles none he had or needed , For his thoughts... | |
 | 1856 - 538 pages
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 | George Stillman Hillard - 1857 - 242 pages
...All the lightness of the birch tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews ; And it floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in autumn, Like a yellow water lily. XXXIX— CONFIDENCE REWARDED. MERRY'S MUSEUM. ONE of the first settlers in... | |
 | Edward Duffield Neill - 1858 - 652 pages
...All the lightness of the birch tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews ; And it floated on the river, Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water lily." Not long after the treaty, twenty-nine Ojibways surrendered themselves at... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 240 pages
...All the lightness of the birch tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews; And it floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in autumn, Like a yellow water lily. XXXIX.—CONFIDENCE REWARDED. MERRY'S HUSETJX. ONE of the first settlers... | |
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