Evangeline: a Tale of AcadieGeorge Slater, 1849 - 147 pages |
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... thou as when through the curling Smoke of the pipe or the forge thy friendly and jovial face gleams Round and red as the harvest moon through the mist of the marshes . " Then , with a smile of content , thus answered Basil the ...
... thou as when through the curling Smoke of the pipe or the forge thy friendly and jovial face gleams Round and red as the harvest moon through the mist of the marshes . " Then , with a smile of content , thus answered Basil the ...
Page 31
... thou hast ever thy jest and thy ballad ! Ever in cheerfullest mood art thou , when others are filled with Gloomy forebodings of ill , and see only ruin before them , Happy art thou , as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe ...
... thou hast ever thy jest and thy ballad ! Ever in cheerfullest mood art thou , when others are filled with Gloomy forebodings of ill , and see only ruin before them , Happy art thou , as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe ...
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... thou hast heard the talk in the village , And , perchance canst tell us some news of these ships and their errand . " Then with modest demeanour made answer the notary public , 66 Gossip enough have I heard , in sooth , yet am never the ...
... thou hast heard the talk in the village , And , perchance canst tell us some news of these ships and their errand . " Then with modest demeanour made answer the notary public , 66 Gossip enough have I heard , in sooth , yet am never the ...
Page 81
... Thou art too fair to be left to braid St. Catha- rine's tresses . " Then would Evangeline answer , serenely but sadly , " I cannot ! - Wither my heart has gone there follows my hand , and not elsewhere . For when the heart goes before ...
... Thou art too fair to be left to braid St. Catha- rine's tresses . " Then would Evangeline answer , serenely but sadly , " I cannot ! - Wither my heart has gone there follows my hand , and not elsewhere . For when the heart goes before ...
Page 116
... thou so near unto me , and yet I cannot behold thee ? Art thou so near unto me , and yet thy voice does not reach me ? Ah ! how often have thy feet trod this path to the prairie ! Ah ! how often thine eyes have looked on the woodlands ...
... thou so near unto me , and yet I cannot behold thee ? Art thou so near unto me , and yet thy voice does not reach me ? Ah ! how often have thy feet trod this path to the prairie ! Ah ! how often thine eyes have looked on the woodlands ...
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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