...noble opening hexameters of LONOFKLLOW, to — not 'plain,' but most exquisitely poetical prose : ' THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighhoring ocean speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. ' This is the...

...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,...

...The poem is descriptive of the fate of aome of the persons involved in these calamitous proceedings. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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...

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

...original grandeur he often felt awed as if passing amid the stately pillars of the temple of nature. "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, nnd in garments indistinct in the twilight. Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,...

...trees are "Patricians," these are Patriarchs. "THE murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with most, 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 bosom*."...

...shadows fall ; Sleep and oblivion Reign over all. EVANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIE, 184 7. EVANGELINE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest primeval ; but...

...sweet guru and common oak, smothered in creepers and Spanish moss, raise their lofty summits, and "look like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms." The yellow hickory and fan-leaved palmetto and graceful cane conceal the sturdy trunks of the larger...