A TALE OF ACADIE BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW BOSTON: SUCCESSORS TO TICKNOR AND FIELDS. 1869. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY DR. WALTER ELA SEPT. 11, 1924 < Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co., CAMBRIDGE. EVANGELINE HIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring THIS pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and pro phetic, 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 ? Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadian farmers, Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands, |