...SPECIMENS. P 0 ET S. HENRY WÄD8WOBTH LONGFELLOW. Born 1807. EVANGELINE. A Tale of Acadie. PART THE FIRST. 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 old, with voices sad and prophetic,...

...! Tran»lated)iy VISCOUNT STEANOFOED. Luis DE CAMOENS, 1524-1579. 0 XII. Jfnmt. FROM " EVANOELINE." 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 old, with voices sad and prophetic,...

...... ... ... ... ... 243 NOTES ... ... ... ... ... .,. .. 2U LONGFELLOW'S POEMS. EVAHGELlNE. . Cale 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,...

...Poem is descriptive of these proceedings. Some of the characters are real personages.] 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,...

...upon the forest surrounding us, dark and dim, these stanzas from Evangeline came into my memory — "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 old, with voices sad and prophetic,...

...LEGEND 399 THE SONG OF HIAWATHA 537 NOTES 709 INDEX 763 EVANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIB. 1847. EVANGELINE. 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,...

...that give us the pine forests of Maine like a painting : % - •• • LETTEK FROM MAV, Jt » lOl " This is the forest primeval — the murmuring pines...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...

...noble opening hexameters of LONOFKLLOW, to — not 'plain,' but most exquisitely poetical prose : ' 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...

...to enter fully into the spirit of the beautiful lines with which Longfellow opens his poem : — " 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....

...noble opening hexameters of LONGFELLOW, to — not 'plain,' but most exquisitely poetical prose : 'Tnis is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, bearded with moss, and in garments £reen, indistinct in the twilight, stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic...