Evangeline, a Tale of AcadieHoughton Mifflin Company, 1883 - 104 pages |
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... Peace of Utrecht , it was ceded by France to Great Brit- ain , and has ever since remained in the possession of the English . But in 1713 the inhabitants of the peninsula were mostly French farmers and fishermen , living about Minas ...
... Peace of Utrecht , it was ceded by France to Great Brit- ain , and has ever since remained in the possession of the English . But in 1713 the inhabitants of the peninsula were mostly French farmers and fishermen , living about Minas ...
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... peaceful people , who desired only to live undis- turbed upon their farms ; but there were some restless spir- its , especially among the young men , who compromised the reputation of the community , and all were very much under the ...
... peaceful people , who desired only to live undis- turbed upon their farms ; but there were some restless spir- its , especially among the young men , who compromised the reputation of the community , and all were very much under the ...
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... peace and contentment . Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers , Dwelt in the love of God and of man . they free from Alike were Fear , that reigns with the tyrant , and envy , the vice of republics . Neither locks had ...
... peace and contentment . Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers , Dwelt in the love of God and of man . they free from Alike were Fear , that reigns with the tyrant , and envy , the vice of republics . Neither locks had ...
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... peace with God and the world , the farmer of Grand - Pré Lived on his sunny farm , and Evangeline governed his household . Many a youth , as he knelt in the church and opened his missal , 105 Fixed his eyes upon her as the saint of his ...
... peace with God and the world , the farmer of Grand - Pré Lived on his sunny farm , and Evangeline governed his household . Many a youth , as he knelt in the church and opened his missal , 105 Fixed his eyes upon her as the saint of his ...
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... Peace seemed to reign upon earth , and the restless heart of the ocean Was for a moment consoled . All sounds were in harmony blended . Voices of children at play , the crowing of cocks in the farm - yards , 159. The Summer of All ...
... Peace seemed to reign upon earth , and the restless heart of the ocean Was for a moment consoled . All sounds were in harmony blended . Voices of children at play , the crowing of cocks in the farm - yards , 159. The Summer of All ...
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Acadian accent answer arms banks Basil beautiful behold bell blacksmith boat called cents cheer church darkness descend door England English entered Evangeline eyes face fair farmer Father fell fire flowers follow forest France French Gabriel garden gleamed golden Grand-Pré hand head heard heart heaven herds History Indian labor land leaves light lips lived longer Longfellow's looked Loud maiden meadows Michigan morning Mountains night Nova Scotia Number o'er ocean odor once passed patient paused peace Poems prairies priest rest returned river roof rose round seemed shade shadow shine ships shore side silent slowly smile song sorrow soul sound spirit stood story streets sweet thee thou thought travellers turned village voice volume waited walls wandered weary wild wind
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Page 9 - THIS is the forest primeval. 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 100 - 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. In the fisherman's Cot the wheel and the loom are still busy ; Maidens still wear their Norman caps and their kirtles of homespun, And by the evening fire repeat Evangeline's story, While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced, neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate...
Page 14 - Rose from a hundred hearths, the homes of peace and contentment. Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers, — Dwelt in the love of God and of man. Alike were they free from Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics.
Page 11 - Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition, still sung by the pines of the forest; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy.
Page 15 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. 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.
Page 10 - Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest primeval ; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman?
Page 11 - Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides; but at stated seasons the flood-gates Opened, and welcomed the sea to wander at will o'er the meadows.
Page 59 - Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Page 13 - Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. There, in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset Lighted the village street, and gilded the vanes on the chimneys, Matrons and maidens sat in snow-white caps and in kirtles Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sound with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens.
Page 12 - Opened, and welcomed the sea to wander at will o'er the meadows. West and south there were fields of flax, and orchards and cornfields Spreading afar and...