Evangeline, a Tale of AcadieG.M. Hill, 1900 - 141 pages |
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accents aloft anon art thou barns Basil the blacksmith Basin of Minas beauty behold blossom boat boatmen cheer church churchyard darkness descended desert door Druids Dunkerque Evangeline stood Evangeline's heart eyes face farmer Father Felician flocks footsteps French Gabriel garden gazed gleamed golden green islands hand heard heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW herds herdsman Indian labor land Laughed Le Carillon Leblanc light lips Loud Louisburg maiden maize meadows meek mingled moon morning neighboring night notary public Nova Scotia o'er ocean odor Opelousas Ozark Mountains passed patient paused plain-song plane-tree Port Royal prairies priest river roof rose shade shadow Shawnee shore silent slowly slumber smile snow-white sorrow soul sound spake sunshine sweet tablets of stone thee thou tides tremulous unto village of Grand-Pré voice waited wandered weary whispered wind window woodlands words Xerxes
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Page 5 - 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.
Page 13 - Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses ! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows. When in the harvest heat she bore to the reapers at noontide Flagons of home-brewed ale. ah ! fair in sooth was the maiden.
Page 78 - Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance, Over the watery floor, and beneath the reverberant branches ; But not a voice replied ; no answer came from the darkness ; And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence. Then...
Page 126 - O my beloved!' and died away into silence. Then he beheld, in a dream, once more the home of his childhood; Green Acadian meadows, with sylvan rivers among them, Village, and mountain, and woodlands; and, walking under their shadow, As in the days of her youth, Evangeline rose in his vision. Tears came into his eyes; and as slowly he lifted his eyelids, Vanished the vision away, but Evangeline knelt by his bedside. Vainly he strove to whisper her name, for the accents unuttered Died on his lips,...
Page 71 - Far down the Beautiful River, Past the Ohio shore and past the mouth of the Wabash, Into the golden stream of the broad and swift Mississippi, Floated a cumbrous boat, that was rowed by Acadian boatmen. It was a band of exiles : a raft, as it were, from the shipwrecked Nation, scattered along the coast, now floating together...
Page 125 - And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.
Page 9 - Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number.
Page 129 - Dwells another race, with other customs and language. Only along the shore of the mournful and misty Atlantic Linger a few Acadian peasants, whose fathers from exile Wandered back to their native land to die in its bosom.
Page 26 - Fcllowed the old man's song, and united the fragments together. As in a church, when the chant of the choir at intervals ceases, Footfalls are heard in the aisles, or words of the priest at the altar, So, in each pause of the song, with measured motion the clock clicked.
Page 30 - Sat astride on his nose, with a look of wisdom supernal. Father of twenty children was he, and more than a hundred Children's children rode on his knee, and heard his great watch tick.