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Page 19
All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow,
All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,
All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!
And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom,
Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured, "Father, I thank thee!" 1380
Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow,
Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.
Under the humble walls of the little Catholic churchyard,
In the heart of the city, they lie, unknown and unnoticed.
Daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them, 1385
Thousands of throbbing hearts, where theirs are at rest and forever,
Thousands of aching brains, where theirs no longer are busy,
Thousands of toiling hands, where theirs have ceased from their labors,
Thousands of weary feet, where theirs have completed their journey!
Still stands the forest primeval; but under the shade of its branches 1390
Dwells another race, with other customs and language.
Only along the shore of the mournful and misty Atlantic
Linger a few Acadian peasants, whose fathers from exile
Wandered back to their native land to die in its bosom.
In the fisherman's cot the wheel and the loom are still busy; 1395
Maidens still wear their Norman caps and their kirtles of homespun,
And by the evening fire repeat Evangeline's story,
While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced, neighboring ocean
Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
PICTURES
Perry Pictures helpful in the Study of Evangeline:
Christ Church, Boston, 1357; The Sheepfold, 3049; The Blacksmith, 887;
Evangeline, 23; The Wave, 3197; Spring, 484; Pasturage in the Forest, 506;
Sheep-Spring, 757; Milking Time, 601; Angelus, 509; Haymaker's Rest, 605;
Landscape, 490; Priscilla Spinning, 3298; Shoeing the Horse, 908; Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, 15; Priscilla, 1338; Autumn, 615; September, 1071;
Deer by Moonlight, 1005; Winter Scene, 27-B.
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We supply the above at one cent each, if twenty or more are ordered. They
may be assorted, as desired.
NOTES.
PART ONE.
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1. A PRIMEVAL FOREST is one which has not been disturbed by the axe.
3. DRUIDS were Celtic priests. Their religious ceremonies were carried on in
oak groves, the trees being regarded as sacred.
10. GRAND PRE (gr�n-pr[=a]) means large meadow.
20. BASIN OF MINAS, an arm of the Bay of Fundy.
25. THE TIDES in the Bay of Fundy rise to the height of 60 feet. What is the
ordinary rise of the tide?
29. BLOMIDON is a promontory about four hundred feet high at the entrance of
the Bay of Minas.
33. THE HENRIES were rulers of France in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries.
34. NORMANDY, a district in northern France bordering on the English
channel.
39. KIRTLE, a petticoat.
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