...may say with the greatest of American poets : This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines an 1 the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green,...like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic. But the practical lumberman cares little for primeval beauty. He not unfrequently detects signs of...

...ascended. We left the oak and beech, and came upon a forest of pine-trees, and I thought of the lines — " This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight" The grey moss which hangs in such abundant festoons from the fir-trees has a most singular effect,...

...these calamitous proceedings. tHIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, x— ' Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct...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...

...alL EVANGELINE. A TALE OF ACADIE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocki, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct...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...

...exile. In " the old Acadian country where all were equal and all were brothers and sisters," where "The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with...like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic" Three cousins settled, and became progenitors of a numerous atfd influential branch of the De Wolf...

...a double meaning: criminals had their hair cropped. This is the forest primeval, The murmuring oaks and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments...green, Indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, With voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, With beards that rest on their bosoms....

...have been checked for accuracy against the first editions. LONGER WORKS EVANGELINE* A TALE OF ACADIE THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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...

...shores. One thought of the lines from Evangeline: "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and hemlocks Bearded with moss and in garments green Indistinct in the twilight." MICHIGAN AS SEEN BY AN EARLY TRAVELER (FROM HOFFMAN'S A Winter in the West) Marshall, Calhoun Co.,...

...spot, While I've a hand to save, Thy axe shall harm it not. From EVANGELINE Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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 deepvoiced...

...The | murmuring s ^ ws \j pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with I moss, and in garments green, wwswwsw indis|tinct in the | twilight, Stand like | Druids of | eld, with | voices | sad and pro|phetic, . . . (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) And here is an example of dactylic meter used within a poem whose...