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Title: The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 Vallée, Léon, 1850-1919 Brandl, Alois, 1855-1940 Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: London : The Standard
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t hopes, and endures, and is patient^Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of womans devotion,List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest;List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy. In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas,Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-PreTjay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward,(living the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number.Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant,Sliut out the turbulent tides; but at stated seasons the flood gatesOpened, and welcomed the sea to vvander at will oer the meadows.West and south there were fields of flax, and orchards and cornfieldsSpreading afar and unfenced oer the plain; and away to the north-wardBlomidon rose, and the forest old, and aloft on the mountainsSea fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty AtlanticLooked on the happy valley, but neer from their station descended.
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EVANGELINE From a paintmg by Thomas Faed EVANGELINE: A TALE OF ACADIE. 6845 There, in the midst of its farms, reposed the Acadian village.Strongly built were the liouses, with frames of oak and of hemlock,Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henrys.Thatched were the roofs, with dormer windows; and gables projectingOver the basement below protected and shaded the doorway.There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunsetLighted the village street and gilded the vanes on the chimneys,Matrons and maidens sat in snow-white caps and in kirtlesScarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning the goldenFlax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doorsMingled their sound with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens.Solemnly down the street came the parish priest, and the childrenPaused in their play to kiss the hand he extended to bless them.Keverend walked he among them; and up rose matrons and maidens,Hailing his slow approac

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