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Book: Evangeline

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  • Evangeline: Preface
    THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
    Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twili
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  • Evangeline: Part The First. I.
    IN the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas,
    Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pré
    130 lines
  • Evangeline: Part The Second. IV.
    FAR in the West there lies a desert land, where the mountains
    Lift, through perpetual snows, their lofty and luminous summits.
    179 lines
  • Evangeline: Part The First. II.
    NOW had the season returned, when the nights grow colder and longer,
    And the retreating sun the sign of the Scorpion enters.
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  • Evangeline: Part The Second. II.
    IT was the month of May. Far down the Beautiful River,
    Past the Ohio shore and past the mouth of the Wabash,
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  • Evangeline: Part The First. III.
    BENT like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean,
    Bent, but not broken, by age was the form of the notary public;
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  • Evangeline: Part The Second. I.
    MANY a weary year had passed since the burning of Grand-Pré,
    When on the falling tide the freighted vessels departed,
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  • Evangeline: Part The First. IV.
    PLEASANTLY rose next morn the sun on the village of Grand-Pré.
    Pleasantly gleamed in the soft, sweet air the Basin of Minas,
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  • Evangeline: Part The Second. III.
    NEAR to the bank of the river, o'ershadowed by oaks, from whose branches
    Garlands of Spanish moss and of mystic mistletoe flaunted,
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  • Evangeline: Part The First. V.
    FOUR times the sun had risen and set; and now on the fifth day
    Cheerily called the cock to the sleeping maids of the farm-house.
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  • Evangeline: Part The Second. V.
    IN that delightful land, which is washed by the Delaware's waters,
    Guarding in sylvan shades the name of Penn the apostle.
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