Evangeline: a Tale of AcadieGeorge Slater, 1849 - 147 pages |
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... darkness Bursting with light seemed the smithy , through every cranny and crevice , Warm by the forge within they watched the labouring bellows , And as its panting ceased , and the sparks expired in the ashes , Merrily laughed , and ...
... darkness Bursting with light seemed the smithy , through every cranny and crevice , Warm by the forge within they watched the labouring bellows , And as its panting ceased , and the sparks expired in the ashes , Merrily laughed , and ...
Page 28
... darkness . Faces , clumsily carved in oak , on the back of his arm - chair , Laughed in the flickering light , and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame , as shields of armies the sunshine . Fragments of song ...
... darkness . Faces , clumsily carved in oak , on the back of his arm - chair , Laughed in the flickering light , and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame , as shields of armies the sunshine . Fragments of song ...
Page 43
... stairs resounded the tread of the farmer . Soon with a soundless step the foot of Evan- geline followed . Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the darkness , D Lighted less by the lamp than the shining face . EVANGELINE . 43.
... stairs resounded the tread of the farmer . Soon with a soundless step the foot of Evan- geline followed . Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the darkness , D Lighted less by the lamp than the shining face . EVANGELINE . 43.
Page 81
... hand , and not elsewhere . For when the heart goes before , like a lamp , and illumines the pathway , Many things are made clear , that else lie hid- den in darkness . ” And thereupon the priest , her friend and father - EVANGELINE . 81.
... hand , and not elsewhere . For when the heart goes before , like a lamp , and illumines the pathway , Many things are made clear , that else lie hid- den in darkness . ” And thereupon the priest , her friend and father - EVANGELINE . 81.
Page 90
... darkness ; And when the echoes had ceased , like a sense of pain was the silence . Then Evangeline slept ; but the boatmen rowed through the midnight ; Silent at times , and then singing familiar Canadian boat - songs , Such as they ...
... darkness ; And when the echoes had ceased , like a sense of pain was the silence . Then Evangeline slept ; but the boatmen rowed through the midnight ; Silent at times , and then singing familiar Canadian boat - songs , Such as they ...
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Acadian Acadie accents aloft anon answer art thou ascended barns Basil the blacksmith beauty behold blossom boat cattle cheer churchyard darkness descended desert door dwellings Evangeline stood Evangeline's heart exile eyes face farm-yard farmer Father Felician Filled flax flocks flowers footsteps forest FREDERIKA BREMER Gabriel garden gazed gleamed golden hand Happy Valley heard heaven HENRY W herds herdsman labour land light lips Loud maiden maize meadows meek morning mournful myste neighbouring night notary notary public Nova Scotia o'er ocean Opelousas Ozark mountains passed Patience paused Port Royal prairies priest river roofs rose sang shade shadow Shawnee ships shore silent Sister of Mercy slowly slumber smoke snow-white sorrow soul sound spake spirit sunshine sweet tale thee thou thought tide Unto Vathek village of Grand-Pré voice waited wander weary whispered wind woodlands words