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TALE OF ACADIE.

BY

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

ELEVENTH EDITION.

BOSTON:

TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

M DCCC LVII.

AL 2386,427

HARVARD COLLEGE

NOV 3 1916

LIBRARY

Lave fund

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1847, by
H. W. LONGFELLOW,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY

METCALF AND COMPANY,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

EVANGELINE.

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.

Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced

neighbouring ocean

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