...upon the forest surrounding us, dark and dim, these stanzas from Evangeline came into my memory — "This is the forest primeval; the murmuring pines...harpers hoar with beards that rest on their bosoms." A ruinous shanty of boughs open to the south, with the smouldering ashes of a fire before it, offered...

...LEGEND 399 THE SONG OF HIAWATHA 537 NOTES 709 INDEX 763 EVANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIB. 1847. EVANGELINE. is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the...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....

...persons involved in these calamitous proceedings.] THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pineB 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....

...Patricians,' these are Patriarchs. • ' THE murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bairded with rnoxe, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,...like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, titand like harjxrt Jioar with btard» tiiat, rat on their bosoms' We are re-reading Evangeline line...

...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. Lond from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate...

...to enter fully into the spirit of the beautiful lines with which Longfellow opens his poem : — " This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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....

...noble opening hexameters of LONOFKLLOW, to — not 'plain,' but most exquisitely poetical prose : ' THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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....

...noble opening hexameters of LONGFELLOW, to — not 'plain,' but most exquisitely poetical prose : 'Tnis is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, bearded with moss, and in garments £reen, indistinct in the twilight, stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic ; stand...

...that give us the pine forests of Maine like a painting : % - •• • LETTEK FROM MAV, Jt » lOl " This is the forest primeval — the murmuring pines and the hemlocks Bearded with moss and with garments green, indistinct in the twilight Stand like Druids of Eld, with voices sad and prophetic,...

...such to imitate "grandpere" centuries ago; Cowley's trees are "Patricians," these are Patriarchs. " THE murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with...harpers hoar with beards that rest on their bosoms." We are re-reading Evangeline line by line.. And here, at this turn of the road, we encounter two Acadian...