id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 9561 Whittier, John Greenleaf The Bridal of Pennacook Part 2 From Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier .txt text/plain 5699 451 92 daughter of Passaconaway, the great Pennacook chieftain, in 1662. Fair lakes, embosomed in the woods and hills; Like summer thunder-clouds, we made our home And the cold wind-driven rain-drops all day long That our broad land,--our sea-like lakes and mountains Down whose slopes to the lowlands thy wild waters But that old voice of waters, of bird and of breeze, When the winter night-wind cold Treading life's wild waters o'er, In her young beauty passed the mother of his child. In rock and tree and lake and hill And chiefs whose homes the sea-winds shook Through the long winter moons smiled dark-eyed And warm bright sun, the love of that young wife From his cold eye the strange light of a smile. But the dark chief of Saugus turned aside Dry up thy tears, young daughter of a chief! O dark water Spirit Nature's wild music,--sounds of wind-swept trees, ./cache/9561.txt ./txt/9561.txt