...curious (though not unworthy) relic of John Eliot's great Algonquian Bible. BAYOU Mysterious waterways They, too, swerved from their course; and entering...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.* So wrote Henry Wadsworth...

...Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward . . . and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs.... . . Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Longfellow Anne Thibodeau...

...was the forest primeval . . . where plumelike Cotton-trees nodded their shadowy crests . . . [and] towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch and trailing moss in mid-air Waved like banners . . . (Longfellow 1922, 1, 62, 63) The red swamp maples hung with...

...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. 765 They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air 770 Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Lovely the moonlight was...

...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering...heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress 1848.] The History of Acadie. 243 Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid air Waved like banners...