...poem is descriptive of the fate of some of the persons involved in these calamitous proceedings. Tins is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the...hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinetin the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers...

...ill-sp6ken, would you stay to ch^er? 6. Thls is the forest primeval ! The murmuring pines and the hemlock, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like DrCiids of eld with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their...

...lines and wrinkles of age with hoary moss and emerald lichen ; and now they " Stand like Druids of old with voices sad and prophetic,— Stand like harpers hoar with beards that rest on their bosoms." f * Smith's Translations of "Cuthon." t Longfellow's "Evangeline." M I o 3 I CHAPTER V. Stone Circles....

...seek. FOR KING AND COUNTRY. A STORY OF 1812. BY FIDELIS. CHAPTER I. AN AFTERNOON SIXTY YEARS AGO. " This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic." A SOFT, balmy afternoon in the beginning of June, just in that sweet hopeful season when the springtime,...

...description of an American forest, with which Longfellow opens his beautiful poem of " Evangeline " — "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines...green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic ; Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms."...

...hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic ; Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms." We are more indebted to the humble lichens for the charming romance of our sylvan scenery than we imagine...

...eventide, wearied and lone, they Lave seemed to talk with me as the pines talked to Longfellow, — <~ Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms."...

...before he has penetrated many yards he finds himself repeating the opening lines of Evangeline : — "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss and with garments green, indistinct iu the twilight, Stand like druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic,...

...jDhilological examination of the text, I have selected four lines at the opening of Evangelinc. — "This is the forest primeval, The murmuring pines...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms." The meter is dactylic hexameter. This requires a dactyl in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth;...

...District Court of the District of Massachusetts. UNIVERSITY PRESS: WE/,CH, BIGELOW, & Co., EVANGELINE THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and,...hemlocks, ^ .bearded with moss, and in garments green, indis, tinct in the twilight, / Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, , , x Stand...