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TALE OF ACADIE.

BY

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

NINTH EDITION.

BOSTON:

TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

M DCCC LIV.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by

H. W. LONGFELLOW,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:
METCALF AND COMPANY,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

WQR 19 FEB 36

PART THE FIRST.

EVANGELINE.

THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring

pines and the hemlocks,

Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,

Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and

prophetic,

Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on

their bosoms.

Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced

neighbouring ocean

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