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Words from Poem "Evangeline" by Longfellow: Repost
Edited on Fri Sep-02-05 06:44 PM by applegrove
"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 neighboring ocean
Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest."


- Evangeline by Longfellow - the story of the Acadians


"Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice
Triumphs."
- Evangeline


"Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance.
. . . .
And, when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence."
- Evangeline

"Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface
Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden."
- Evangeline


"Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted.
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, still fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain."
- Evangeline

http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/authors/henry_wadsworth_longfellow_a008.htm
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