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New Yo'k 14609 oSA '-^ (716) 482 - 030G - Phone ^^ (^'6) 288 - ^989 - ^Q* LONGFELLOW'S EVANGELINE *) LONGFELLOW'S EVANGELINE }^M^sii^ juiom' *V HjlSBf Mffx AftfcH i*^ KjtL' ^>*^1 LOXG FELLOWS EVANGELINE WITH IMKOnUCTlOX A.VI) .VO/ES i5v A. H. i.L MILI.i:. M.A. I'RuFK^vjK "Y 1 n ,LI>II IIIfK*l|-kl IN KlM.'s ( UI.J.Kr.F, WlNUsuK, y. ». HALIFAX, N. S. T. C. A L L E N AND CO. 1901 Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1901, I!v T. C. Allen and Co. In the Department of Agriculture (Copyright Branch). INTRODUCTION. I. THE POET. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born at Portland, Maine, on February 27th, 1807. His boyhood to the age of fifteen years was spent in his native town. In 1822 he t.itcred Bowdoin College, the State University, which was situated at Brunswick. At college he was studious and reserved, and took high scholastic rank. Among his clas. lates was Nathaniel Hawthorne, afterwards one of the greatest of American romancers. Upon graduation (1825), Longfellow was appointed to the new Chair of Modern Languages in his Alma Mater, under the con- dition that he should go to Europe and acquire the necessary additional learning. To Europe he went, ac- cordingly, in May of 1826, remaining three years and a half. He entered upon his collegiate duties in 1829. The young professor was married in 1831. His con- nection with Bowdoin extended over a period of six years. In December, 1834, he received an offer of the Modern Languages Professorship in Harvard Universitv, which he at once accepted. The spring of 18.35 saw him again in Europe, where he travelled for eighteen months. On tliis occasion he visited England, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and France, and made a careful study of the principal European languages. / K^'^::fr*^'^rf!'iK\^pfSi'*4a ^ INTliODUCTION. The death of his wife in Rotterdam cast a gloom over the whole tour. He returned to America in 1836, and at once began work at Harvard. His life now was filled with congenial labour and cheered by congenial friends. In 184'2 he made another European i)ilgrimage, — this time for his health. On his way home he visited the novelist Dickens and met the poets Landor and Rogers. In 1843 he married a second time. Eleven years later he resigned his posi- tion at Harvard so as to devote himself exclusively to literature. His life was saddened in 18(31 by the death of his wife under very mournful circumstances. The poet paid a fourth visit to Europe in 1868, when at the height of his fame. Everywhere he was greeted witli honour. The Queen received him at Windsor, and he spent two days with Tennyson. He was home again in the fall of 18G9. Thirteen more years remained to him. They were passed chiefly in Cambridge. Long- fellow died on March 24th, 1882. His last poem — completed only a week before his death — concludes with words that form a fitting comment upon his manly and hopeful life : — " Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light ; It is daybreak everywhere." Longfellow wrote a great deal, his range covering poetry, prose, and poetical translation. The following are his chief works, with dates : — POETKV. Voices of thk Night 1339 BaI.LAKS and other I'OEMS 1841 Evangeline jg^^ 1 -1> INTRODUCTION. The Golhes Legend jgjj Hiawatha '.'.', 1855 Tales of a WAisruE I.nx ..1863 Prose. ^/"^^■^i" ia35 lIVI'Kltlils j^..- KAVANA^iH . . 1849 Translation. Dame's Divisa Commedia 18fi7-70 TH ^'^ II. THE POEM. 1. "Evansrolinc" was cominfiico.l in 184.5, thoiish the germ of the poem may have hiiii in tlie poefs mind lor some tune before. The story of its inception is inter- esting. Rev. H. L. Conolly, a friend of flawthorne-s and Lomrfellow's. heard from a French-Canadian in his congre.L'ation tlie tale of a younir couple in Acadie. They were separated at the time of the e.xpulsion of the Aca- dians, and the bride wandered about New England all her life, searching for her husband. At last, when she was old, she found him on his death-bed. Conolly re- lated the story to Longfellow in Hawthorne's presence expressing his surprise that the latter had been un- touched bv its literary value. Whereupon Longfellow, irapressf.l at once by the tale, turned to Hawthorne and said: '-(Jive it to me, and promise that vou will not write about it until I have written the poem." Haw- thorne gave ready consent, and " Evangeline " was the result. The poet's authorities were not numerous. « I have Vlll IXTKODUCTION. never been in Xova Scotia," he wrote. «' As far as I can remember, the authorities I mostly relied upon . . . were the Abbd Raynal and Mr. Haliburton : the first for the pastoral, simple life of the Acadians ; the second for the history of their banishment." The Abbd Ravnal was a French priest (1713-1796), and the work referred to, " A Philosophical History of the Settlements and Trades' of the P]uropean3 in the East and West Indies." Hali- burton, of course, was the well-known author of " Sara Slick." His History of Xova Scotia appeared in 1829. For the second part of the poem Longellow consulted Watson's "Annals of Philadelphia," the "Historical Collections of Pennsylvania," and Darby's " Geographi- cal Description of Louisiana." "Evangeline" was finished on February 27th, 1847, the po°et's fortieth birthday, and published on October 30th of the same year. 2. The metre of the poem is what is called English dactylic hexameter. It was first used, probabK^ by the poet Sj)enser and his friends in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. But the attempts then made were not suc- cessful, chiefly because they followed the Greek and Latin modes of writing hexameter poetrv, which are radicallv different from the English. During the century just past, however, several poets have employed the metre with excellent results. The hexameter line is divided into six parts, or feet called dactyh and trochees. The dactyl is composed of throe syllables, one accented followed by two unaccented, as : m^rrili}, neighbounng. The trochee is made up of two syllables, one accented and one unaccented, as • hSavdn, ^cean. Of the six feet, the first four may be INTRODLXTIOX. jj all dactyls, all trochees, or a mixture of both. But the fifth foot is always a dactyl, and the sixth a trochee ; except in very rare instances, where the fifth foot is a trochee. The following are examples of the various kmds of hexameter lines : («) First four feet dactyls. This is the I f.k^stprim | dvil. Th^ | murmuring I pfnes ind the | hemlocks. (1. 1.) (f>) First four feet trochees. Xdw through I rushing | chutes a | mdng green I islands where | plumelike. (1. 7oo.) (o) First four feet dactyls and trochees mixed. Slowly, I sl6wly I sl/.wly the | d.avs siic I ceeded each I other. (1.1207.) Day aft^r | diy they | gh'ded a | down th^ I turbulent | river. (1. 753.) ' (d) Fifth foot a trochee. Whi'rled them k | Idft through the | a.r at | dnce from a I hundrM | hdusetops. (1. 622.) Longfellow's hexameters were so musical and so sue- cessful that interest in the metre revived and its value began to be more widely recognized. Arthur Iln-h Clough published " The Bothie of Tobcr-na-Vuolich "In 1848. Of this poem he wrote to Emerson : " Will you convey to Mr. Longfellow that it was a reading of his ' Evangeline ' aloud, . . . which, coming after a re- perusal of the Iliad, occasioned this outbreak of hexa- meters ? " It is to be supposed that something of the ^^^m * INTRODUCTION. same influence led to the issue of Charles Kingslcy's beautiful "Andromeda" in 1858, Longfellow demonstrated once for all the charm of the metre, and its adaptability to English poetry. Altliough he used hexameters afterwards — notablv in "Tlie Courtship of Miles Stand ish " — " Evangeline " remained liis greatest achievement in technique, as it was tlie most representative and most satisfactory of all his poems. Oliver Wendell Holmes, himself a famous author, wrote: "From the first line of the poem, from its first words, we read as we would float down a broad and placid river, murmuring softly against its banks, heaven over it, and the glor^ of the unspoiled wilderness all around. . . . The hexameter has often been criticised, but I do not believe any other measure would have told that lovely story with such effect as we feel when carried along tlie current of these brimming, slow-moving, soul-satisfying lines." •■ Evangeline" is a beautiful poem, — its author's mas- terpiece. But it must not be regarded as historically correct. It should rather be considered upon its literary merits. See various points brought up in the Notes. III. THE PEOPLE. Without going into detail, the facts in relation to the expulsion of the Acadians may De outlined as follows : — Ai-ihiit' was the name given by the French to what is now Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. It was discov- ered by the Cabots in 1497. In IGO-t an attempt was made at colonisation by Sieur de Monts, but ten years INTRODUCTION. X* later the colonists were expelled In- Enj^lish rovers fntm Virginia. In 1621 Sir William Alexander obtained a grant of the whulc province, which he named .^'./■.t Scotia, lie also endeavoured to colonise tlie count r\, hut the aim was frustrated In- the Frencli IiIJm). Between 1G;J3 and 103?^ some sixty families of eu|..- nists were Ijrought out hv Isaac de Uazilly and D'Aunav Charnisay. These families Itecame the proirenitois <>{ the Acadian people. Tlicy were drawn from a limited area on the west coast of France. In ltl.")4 Cromweil reasserted the supremacy of England ; hut Acailic was restored to France by the Treaty of IJieda (I'itlT . In 1710 the province was con(piered l>y the Englisii. liie con(iuest being conlirmed by the Treaty of Utreeiit three years later. Tiiereupon the Aeadians bi.'caine Britisli sidtjects. But tiiey refused to take the oatii of allegiance. War broke out between Euirland and France in 17.14. It was the culmination of tiieir struggle for New World Empire. During the following year tiie Aeadians linally declined, through their deputies, to subscribe to the oath re(piired, and the (Jovernment of Nova Scotia decided upon their removal. The work was placed in the hands of Lieutenant- Colonel John Winslow, of Massachusetts. He arrived at Grand I're, with 297 soldiers, towards the end of August, 1755. Thence he issued a proclamation, on September 2nd, to the inhabitants of "flrand l'r<5. Mines, Uiver Canard, and places adjacent," smnuKuiing them to meet him in the church on the oth. Al)out 418 men responded, and were seized. October 8th was the first day of gen- eral embarkation, and on that day the first transport left. mm?^^^m^MS. Xll INTRODUCTION. By November 9th 1,510 persons had been sent away, in nine vessels. The expulsion was not completed until late in December. The whole number deported was about 0,000. They were distributed among tlie English cuiunics of North Carolina, Virginia, ^Maryland, Penn- sylvania, > w York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Many of the exiles reached Louisiana, where their de- scendants still remain. Some wandered back to Acadie. Their posterity now inhabit certain parts of Nova Scotia] New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton' By the census of 1801 the number of French in tlie jteninsula was 19,290. The Acadians are described as a simple people, fish- ing a httlc and hunting a little, but chiefly enga-ed m cultivating the huge marshes of their land. They grew flax and wool, and made their own clothing No just opinion of the Acadians can be formed, however without consulting contemporary documents. Many of these are preserved in the N. S. Archives, and in the col- lections of the N. S. Historical Society. Their relations to their English fellow-subjects, and the question as to the justice or otherwise of their ex- pulsion, have been widely discussed, but can scarcely be touched on here. One thing may be pointed out, how- ever, _,n 1755 British rule in North America was en- dangered by the power of France. The French still held he great fortresses of Quebec and Louisburg, and had but recently inflicted a disastrous defeat upon a strong English force in the Ohio Valley. The entire subject is treated in Francis Parkman's w ,/!f^^"£'"*"''^' ""^ Conflict," and "Montcalm and Wolte. These constitute the standard authority INTRODUCTION. xin The following works will be found interesting as parallel reading : — An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia. T. C. Ualiburton. The History of Acadia. James Haiinay. Journal of Colonel Winslow. Vols. 3 and 4, Collec- tions of N. S. Historical Society. Acadia. E. Richard. Longfellow. Eric S. Robertson, in Great Writers Series. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, S. Longfellow. " A Sister to Evangeline." C. G. D. Roberts. -\ >-/f=^V ■rV-'" I 3^ ^^Sm^t^'ixM'^^^i^^M^ EVANGELINE. This is tlie forest primeval. Tlie nnirinuring pines and the heinlucks, Heartled with luoss, and in garments gri'eii. indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of cM, with voices sad and iirojdietic, .Stand like harpers hoar, with l)eards that rest on tlieir bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighlwurinj; ocean 5 Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voire of the hiHitsman ? Where is the thatch-roofed village, the liome of Acadian farmers, — ^fen whose lives glided on like rivers that water the wood- lands, 10 Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven ? Waste are those pleasant farms, and tlie farmers for ever dejiarted! Scattered like dust and leaves, when the mighty blasts of October Seize them, and whirl them aloft, and sprinkle them far o'er the ocean. Xaught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Graud-Prd. la 1 2 evan(;eli.\k. V<- who brlR.vu in uffectiou that hoi^cs. ami ciulures, an>l IS jiathiil. Ye whu bfli..\.; in the heauty un.l .tru.yth of won.aii's (IfNOtlOll, Li>t tu th.' lunuriitiil tia.htiuu still sun- l.y the pines of the loicst ; ' List to a Tale ol Love iii Acadie, huiae ot the hupi)^. I3art \\)t Sfixat. In tho Afa.lian hm.l.on the slioros of the Hasin f.f Minas -o •istant, s..rlu(lf(|. still, th.. little villa-e of (Iraiid-I'iv "' * Lay in the tinitful valley. \-ast meadows stretehed tu tlie eastward, (iivmj,' the villa-e its name, aiul pasture to floeks without nnniber. I»ikos. that the hands of the farmers had raised with labour Uicfssaiit, Shut out til- turbulent tides; but at stated seasons the iioo(l.(,'ates „, Opened ami welcomed the sea to wander at will o'er tlie meadows. West and south there were Helds of flax, and orchards and cornfields Sprcadinf,'afar and unfenced o'er the plain; an.l away to the northward •' lilomidon rose, and the forests old. and aloft on the moun- tains Se;i-fn-s ],it(>he 1 their tents, and mists from the mbditv Atlantic " • Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station (lescended. There, in tho midst of its farms, reposed the Acadian vii- laj,'e. Strongly built were tlie houses, with frames of oak and of hemlock, Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the lleunes. ° KVANt;KLIXK. S Tliatcht'd wore tlie roots, with iloriutT-windows ; and gablt-s proji'diii^' ;!-, < hrv lln' l);isriin'iit lirlow |iriitfcti'il and sh idcd tlii' dotirw.iv. TiuTf III till- tiMinjiiil i'Vciiiii.,'.s ot >iiiiiiiicr, wiicii liriLjlitU til'' SllllM't I.i'^litrd the viUai,'.' stifrl, aiiil -iMi'.l tli<' vanes on tin- ciiiinlii'V-, M (tii'ii> an I maidens sat in snow-uliite caps and in kiitlis Sr. irl"t ami l.liic and urecii. \\;lii di-lalls >iiinni!i,' ti.v .^'"ld«-n ^^) Fl IX l..r till- giissiiPiu,:,' iuoiiis. wiiosf noisy shuttles within di inf.-i Mm^leii tiitdr sound witli the whir of the wlierls and llie .-'■nLrs (>l the maidens. Snh'iiihis down the street eaiiie the [laiidi j'i-;est,and tlie (dill Ircii Tallied III thtdr ]ihiv to ki,>s tiie hand h" e^t.'ii led to hh'ss lie m. Ileveieiid Walked he among tliem ; ami uji rose matrons and niaideiis, 4,1 11 iiiiie,' ins hlow aiijiKKich with words of art'eetionate wi 1- eonie. Tiieii came the labourers homo from tiie liel.l, and sirem Iv tiie sun sank l)ouii to his rest, and twili-^^dit prevailed. Anon fiom tiie lielfry Sid'tly the Aii'-Teliis sounded, and ()v> r the rocd's (jf tlie villa.^e Coiuiiiiis (d pale blue smoke, like tduuds ot iiieense as- cending;, :,(( Kose from a luindred hearths, the homes (»f jieaee ainl eoiitoiitniont. Thus (hvtdt toj^ether in Invo tliose simple .\e idiaii fanners, — Dwelt in the love of (iod and of ii;ii. Alike were they free from Fear, that rei^'iis with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of re|iul.lies. Neithi'r locks h;id they to their ihi-u's, nor bars to thidr windows; 55 liUt their dwellings were oiieii as day and the hearts of the owners ; Tiiere the richest was poor, and the poorest lived in abundance. ;^ii■;S^^'S^^ EVANGELLVE. Somewhat apart from the village, and nearer the Basin of Miiias, Benedict Belle fontaine, the wealthiest farmer of Grand-1're, Dwelt on his goodly acres; and with him, directing his houseiiold, tiO Gentle Eviuigcliiie lived, his child, and the pride of the village. Stal'.vortli and stately in form was the man of seventy winters ; Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with sno.v-tlakes ; White as ilie snow were his locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak-leaves. Fair was slie to behold, that maiden of seventeen sum- mers ; (15 Black were h^r eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows. "When in tlie harvest heat she bore to the reapers at noontide Flagons of home-brewed ale, ah ! fair in sooth was the maiden. 70 Fairer was she when, on Sunday morn, while the bell from Its turret Sprinkled with holy sounds the air, as the priest with his hyssop Sprinkles the congregation, and scatters blessings upon them, Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal, Wearing her Xorman cap and her kirtle of blue, and tlie ear-rings 75 Brougiit in the olden times from France, and since, as an heirloDiu, Handed down from mother to child, through long gen- erations. But a celestial brightness — a more ethereal beauty — Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, EVANGELINE. & Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. 80 When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exqui- site music. Firmly builded with rafters of oak, the house of the farmer Stood on the side of a hill commanding the sea; and a slruiy .Syc:imort' ^'vew by the door, with a woodbine wreathing around it. Iiudi'ly carved was the porch, with seats beneath ; and a footpatll 85 L 'il through an orchard wide, and disappeared in the incadow. Under tlie syccuuoro-troo were hives ovt-rliung by a pent- lionst\ .Suoli as the travLdlor sots in regions remote by the road- side, Built o'er a box for the poor, or tlio ble^^sed image of Mary. Farther down, on the slope )f the liill, was the well with its muss-grown iio Hucket, fastened with iron, and near it a trougli for the horses. Shielding the house from storms, on the north, were the liarns and the farm-yard ; There stood the broad-wlieeled wains and the antique jilouglis and the harrows; There were the folds for the sheep ; and there, in his featliered seraglio. Strutti'il the lordly turkey, and crowed the coek. with the selfsame e the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, lias the craft of the smith been held in repute by the ]ie(iple. Bisil was l^eneiliet's friend. Their children from earliest chihiliooil Grew un together as brother and sister; and Father i'elieian. j2o Priest ami pedagogue both in the village, had taught them their letters Out of the selfsame book, with the hymns of the church and the ]ilain-song. But when tlic hymn was sung, and the daily lesson completed. EVANGELINE ^ Swiftlj- they hurried away to the forge of Basil the black- smith. 'I'liere at the door they stood, with wondering eyes to beliold him j.,. Take in liis leathern lap the hoof of the horse as a play- thing, Nailing the shoe in its place; while near him the tire of the cart-wht't'l L ly like a ticry snako. coiUnl round in a circle of cinders Ott on autumnal eves, when without in the .'ath,-riiur darkness ^ JUirstmg witli light seemed the smithv, through ev.Tv cranny and crevioe, " ' j.,,. Warm i,y the forge within ^ley watched the labourin'r iiidlows, ° And as Its panting ceased, ad the siKirks expired in the ashes, -Mfrrily laughed, and sai-l thev were nuns -uin^ into the cliaiiel. ' ^ Ott on sledges in winter, as swift as the swoon of the ea-'le Down the hillside bounding, they glided away o'er ''the' meadow. the luilkinaid's hand; whilst loud and in regular cailciii'i' lato tilt' souiiiliii.,' jiail;, tlie foaming streamlets descended. J.Dwing of eattle and peals of laugliter were heard in the larm-y.ard. j,,5 Keliced lack l,y the barns. Anon t' y sank into stillness ; Ileiiviiy closed, with a jarring sound, the valves of the liarn-(l(jors, llattled tlie wooden bars, and all for a season was silent. lii-doors, warm by the wide-mouthed fireplace, ihair, and watched how the Hames and the smoki'-wreatii.s ._,„„ Struggled togetiier like foes in a burning citv. Ikdiiud iiim, Nodding and mocking along the wall with gestures fan- tastic, Darted iiis own huge shadow, and vanished awav into darkness. Faces, clumsily ca.ved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewter plates "on the dresser .,^5 Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of song the old man sang, and carols of Christ- Tuas, Such as at home, in the olden time, his fathers before him Sang 111 their Norman orchards and bright Burguudian vine- yards. Close at her fatiier's side was the gentle Evan<^eline seated, " „,q Spinning tiax for the loom that stood in the corner behind her. Silent awhile were its treadles, at rest was its dilieent shuttle, ° While the monotonous drone of the wheel, like the drone of a bagpipe, EVANGELINE 11 Followed the old man's song, and united the fragments together. As in a church, when the rhaut of the choir at intervals ceases, 215 Footfalls are heard in tl.c aisles, or words of the priest at the altar, So, in each pause of the song, with measured niotiun the clock clicked. Thus as they sat, there were footsteps heard, and. smi- deiily lifted, Sounded the wooden latch, and the door swung back on its hinges. Uenediet knew by tiie hob-nailed shoes it was Hasil t!ie blacksmith. on,, And by lier beating heart Evangeline knew who was witli him. " Welcome ! " the farmer exclaiijjed, as their fuutsteps paused on the threshold. " Welcome, Hasil, my friend ! Come, take thy place on tlie settle Close by the chimney-side, which is always empty without thee ; Take from the shelf overhead thy pipe and the box of tobacco ; 225 Never so much thyself art thou as when, through the curling Smoke of the pipe or the forge, thy friendly and jovial face gleams Kound and red as the harvest moon through the mist of the marshes." Then, with a smile of content, thus answered IJasil the bl.acksmith, Taking with easy air the accustomed seat by the fire- side: — 230 "Benedict liellefontaine, thou hast ever thy jest and tin- ballad! Ever in cheerfullest mood art thou, when others are filled with Gloomy forebodings of ill, and see only ruin before them. Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe." 1 12 EVANGELINE. TausinR a moment, to take the pipe that Evangeline brought him, 235 And witli a coal from the embers had lighted, he slowly continued : — " Four d;i,ys now are passed since the English ships at their anchors Kido in the (Jaspereau's mouth, with their cannon pointed aj,'ainst us. What tlii'ir design may be is unknown; but all are coiii- nianded (^u the morrow to meet in the church, where his Majesty's IlKUKhltt! -'0 Will be proclaimed as law in the land. Alas ! in the mean time Manv surmises of evil alarm the hoart-^ of the ]>eo)«le." Tlien made answer the farmer: — " Perhaps some friendlier purpose r>rint,'s these ships to our shores. Perhaps the harvests in Kngl.and l>y ur.timely rains or untimelier heat have been blighted, _ 24.'-. And from our bursting barns they would feed their cattle and ehildrcn." " Not so thinketh the folk in the village," said warmly the blacksmith, Shaking his he.ad as in doubt; then, heaving a sigh, he citntinued : — " Louisburg is not forgotten, nor Beau Sejour, nor Port Royal. Many already have fled to the forest, and lurk on its out- skirts, 2.-0 Waiting with an..icus hearts the dubious fate of to- morrow. Arms have been taken from us, and warlike weapojis of all kinds ; Nothing is left but the blacksmith's sledge and the scythe of the mower." Then with a pleasant smile made answer the jovial farmer : — " Safer are we unarmed, in the midst of our flocks and our cornfields, 255 Safer within these peaceful dikes besieged by the ocean, EVANGELINE. 13 Than our fathers in forts, besieged by the enemy's cannon. Fear no evil, my friend, and to-night tuay nu shi'.duw of sorrow Fall on this house and hearth ; for this is the night i)f tlie contract. Built are the house and the barn. The merry lads of tlio village lTiO Strongly have built them and well ; and, breaking tho gl.'bo round about thoni, Filli'il the barn with hay, and tlie house with food fur a twelveniontli. Kent* Leblanc will be here anon, with his pajiers and ink- horn. Shall we not then be glad, and rejoice in tho joy of our chililren ? " As apart by the window she stood, with her hand in ln-r lover's, •j<;5 lilushliig Evangeline heard the words that her father had si)oken, And as they died on his lips, the worthy notary entered. III. Bent like a Hbouring oar, that toils in the surf of tlie ocean, Bent, but not broken, by age was the form of the notary public ; Shocks of yellow hair, like the silken floss of the maize. hung L'To Over his shoulders ; his forehead was high ; and glasses with horn bows Sat astride on his nose, with a look of wisdom supeniil. Father of twenty children was he, and more tlian a hundred Children's children rode on his knee, and heard his great watch tick. Four long years in the times of the war had he languished a captive. 275 Suffering much in an old French fort as the friend of the English. Now, though warier grown, witliout all guile or suspicion, 14 KVANo And, iierrhance, canst tell us some news of these ships and their errand." Then with modest demeanour made answer the notary pulilic, — "Gossip enough have I 1; 'ard, in sooth, yet am never the wiser ; And what their errand may be I know no better than others. \ it am I not of those who imagine some evil intention 2'J5 llrin-s tiiem here, for we are at peace; and why then mo- lest us '.' " •• God's name!" shouted the hasty and somewhat irascible blacksmith ; '•Must we in all things look for the how, and the why, and the wherefore ? Daily injustice is done, and might is the right of the strongest ! " But, without heeding his warmth, continued the notary jiublie. — 3^^ " Man is unjust, but God is just ; and finally justice EVANGELINK. U Triuinp".H; and well I remember a story, that often eoii- Stilfil me. When as a cai.tive I lay in the old French fort at J'ort Koyal." Tins w.Ls the old man's favourite tale, and he loved to re- jirat It Whrii 111,, iieiL,'hlK)urs comiilaiiied tliat any injiistioe was ilone tliem. ' ^,,_,j "Once ill an ancient city, whose name I no longer re- nii'iul)''!', Ii'aisiil aloft on a cohinui a lirazcn statne of .lustice SUhmI ill the imbho .sijuaie, uiiholdiiiL,' the .scales in its left hand. And ill Its ri-ht a sword, a.s an eiuMem that justice j.re- Ov.T ill,' laws of the laml. and tin; hearts and homes of the „ I"'','!'''-- .•no l-.ven tlc> oinls had huilt their nests in the scales of the halance, Havin,' no fr.ir of the sword that tlashed in the sunshine aliove them. Hut in the course of time the laws of tne land were cor- rupted ; Might took the })l.ace of right, and the weak were on- pressed, anil the mighty Kuled with an iron rod. Then it chanced in a nobleman's palace .,j. That a necklace of pearls was lost, and ere long a suspicion Kdl on an orphan girl wiio lived .as maid in the hous.diold. She, after form of trial condemned to die on the scaffold, Patiently met her doom at tlie foot of the statue of Justice. As to her Father in heaven her innocent spirit as- cended, 3.,Q Lo! o'er the city a tempest rose; and the bolts of the thunder Smote the statue of bronze, an.l hurled in wrath from its left hand Don-n on the pavement below the clattering scales of the balance. And in the hollow thereof was found the nest of a magpie, Into whose clay-built walls the necklace of pearls was in- woven." 325 16 KVANGFLIXE. '"'''''bhis.^tr '=°"^-'"^^"'' *''«" '^^ «tor.v was ended, the '"^""tliMagl.;""" "^"^ ^'''" ''■""'^ ''"■"''• ^'"^ fi"J«^h no '^" tir vr'i' ''"'' *'''"5*"''''^'' '"t" 'i"" ^^" I'is face, as l''ree/.e m f,mta.suc shapes oi. the wi,ulo^v.,,.i.u.s i,. the winter, ''•l;;;';^^ '•:vanj,'..line l.^hte-l the l.raz..n la.n,, on the ' ''"l'!;e'ml'' °^'""'^"'^''' ^''^ I--tor tankar-l with hona" Wh.l,. lro,„ his ,„...k.t the notary .Ir.w h.s papers and .nk- "^"^^^ ^ ''''^-' ^""'' '^'^ ''^^« ^"'J ^''« ^'^^ -f the Nanun^^the .Iow.t of th. bn,le n. flocks of sheep and in ^'"''ph.'toi ""'"'•' 1"-"°^*^^^^'^' '-^'"1 J»b- and well were com- "^"^.'ar.uh' '"'^ '^ ''" ^"'^ ''''' ''' 1'^^ ''^«"" "» the Tl.en from his leathern pouch the farn.er threw on the table in>c tunes the ohl n.an's fee in solid pieces of silver groon' '^^ """''' '"'^ ^'"''"'^ '^' ^"^'^ ^"'^ ^"J^- Lifted alof't the tankard of ale and drank to their welfare'" 'pa'teli: " '"'" ''" ^^P'»-'-l^-»b-bo"ed andde- Whih. in si'lenee the others sat and mused by the fireside %,.; !rf,' "'' '"•""'■"''' thedrau.d.t-board out of its c nSr '"„;;,;' "'' ^•'^'"*" ^'^'S""- i" *"endly contention the old Laughe.l at each lucky hit. or unsuccessful nianceuvre '" '''"ilul;t;;:;r" ^^^ ----'' - ^ ^-cir:;;^ .ade ^''^'"brasure"^''*' '" ''^^ '"''^'S'^* ^'^^^"^ ^^ ^ ^^'"^ow's em- Sat thMove'rs and whispered together, beholding the moon EVANGKLIXK. 17 Over the pallid sea and the Lilvery mist of tlie mi'.id- ows. 350 Silently one by one. in tlio infmito meadows of heaven, lUossonied the lovely stars, the lorget-me-nots of the angels. Thus M-aa the evtniiig passed. Anon the liell from the b.Ury Rang (.lit the hour of niii.'. tiie village curfew, and straigiit- way Rose thi' gufsts and departeil ; and silence reigned in tlie linllStdlold. ;(;,-, Many a farewell word and sweet good-night on the door- step Lnigi-red long m Kvangeline's heart, and filled it with gladiM's.s, Carcliilly tiien were covered the embers that glowed (Ui the liearth-:;tone, And on tlie oaken stairs resound. "d tin' tna.l i.f tlie fartn.-r. SiK.n with a soundless step the foot of Evangeline fol- lowed. 3,;o I p the staircase moved a luminous sjiacc in the darkness. Lighted less by the lamp than the shining face of the maiden. Silent siie passed through the hall, and entered the door of her ehamlKT. I' . i.'e thnl < hamber was, with its curtains of white, ami Its clothes-jiress Ample and high, ou whose spacious shelves were carefully fohled 3,.5 Linen and woollen stuffs, by the hand of Evangeline woven. This w.as the precious dower she would bring to her hus- band in marriage. Better than flocks and herds, being proofs of her skiU as a housewife. Soon she extinguished her lamp, for the mellow and radiant moonlight Streamed through the windows, and lighted the room, till the heart of the maiden 370 Swelled and obeyed its power, like the tremulous tides of the ocean. 18 EVANGELINE. Ahl^slje was fair, exceeding fair to behold, as she stood Xuked^smnv-wlute feet on the gleamin. floor of her cham- ^'"or,tml!'''''"''^ ''"' ^"^""'' """"« '■'« ''''' ^'f the ^'' saduLJ^" ''"'°'''' "^ ^^•'"' ^"'l ^' t'"'^^ - feeling';? Flitted^ .^ " ^^" """' ^"^ darkened the room for a mo- And, r.. he gazed from the window, she saw serenely the 11'' : a.ss "^ ^'"'^footsteps!" ^"^'^' °^ "" '^°'"^' ''"'^ *""" '^' ^""°^ ^'" ^^ °^i*///^^''^ha™ =» tent young Ishmael wandered wkh IV. ^\?rTi"l-I'rJ''''' "^''*' """'^ *^* '""^ °" *^® '''"^Se of Wliere the ships, with their wavering shadows, were ridmg ^'^' labour^""'' '"''" '''''*'■ '" '^'' '"'''^Se, and clamorous ^'""nu'rnnS' ''' ^'""'''"' ^''"'^' "' ^'^^ ^"'^^''^ ^'"^^ °^ the Now fnm, the country around, from the farms and neigh- bouring hamlets, " Mnnvi" ,*'';'"■ ^'f '"'^' ^'•"'''^' ^'^^ ^^'the Acadian peasants, folk'' ^"'"'^■"''"^^ ''^"^ JO<="»d laugh from the young ^^""^Leadows"^^* '^' ^"^^'''■' '^ "P ^^°'^ ^''^ °"™"°"3 880 EVAXOELIXE. 19 Where ik» patli couM be seen but the track of wheels in the i,'rcfiis\var(l, Group atttT group appeared, and joined, or passed on the highway. Long ere noon, in the village all sounds of labour were siltMU!ed. Thronged were the streets with people; and m.isv gn.ups at the house-doors Sat in the clieerful sun, and rejoiced and gossiped to- hverv Ik. use was an inn, wliere all were weleoni-d and teasted ; For witii this simple people, who lived like brotiiers to- gether, All things wore held in conunon, and what one had was another's. Yet under ik-nedict's roof hospitality seemed more aliun- dant : For Evangeliue stood among the guests of her father; Aon liriglit was her taoe with smiles, and words i,t welconie and gladness Fell from lier beautiful lips, and blessed the cup as she gave it. Fuder the open sky, in the odorous air of the orehard, Stnpt of its golden fruit, was spread the feast of betrotiial. There in the shade of the porch were tiie priest and tho notary seated ; ^^jj There good Benedict sat, and sturdv Basil the blacksmith. Xot far withdrawn from these, by'the eider-press and the betdiives, Michael the fid.iler was placed, with the gayest of hearts a!id of waistcoats. Shadow and light from the leaves alternately played on his snow-white Hair, as it waved in the wind ; and the jollv face of the hddler • ^jQ Glowed like a living coal when the ashes are blown from the embers. Gaily the old man sang to the vibrant sound of his fiddle. Tons les Bourgeois de C/mrlres, irnd Le Otri//on de Lun- kerque, 20 EVANGELINE. An.l anon with his wooden shoes beat time to the music "linces""" ^' '''^'"^"^ ^^" "'^"'^' "^ ^^' ^^^^3''"=? Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows; tlH ni" ^'"""' ^"''^''^^''''^ '"'^ cliiKlren mingled amonj ^'''2u.irf '^'' "'''^' ''"' ^^'^^'y^l^"*^' Benedict's Noble.t'of all the youths was Gabriel, son of the black- olll 1 Lil J ''^'som.rouf ' '""'"'"° ''"'''''■ '^'"^ ^" ' ^"^'^ ^ summons ^""'dnnn'li^''^ '"'" ^'^ ''''''''' "'^^ ^^"^ ^^^ --^^-'"^ '"'^'S'chXlnSl"" ''^ ^'""' ^^'^'' '"^"- ^^'^^-^t' ^" ''"on thlTh^alS^nes''"^ ^^^^^^ ^'^ ''' ^^^-^' ^^^^ ^"-^ ^""''forlit*'^ autnmii-leaves and evergreens fresh from the '^'''' anumg I'h'.f '^ ^'°'" *^" '^''^"' '"'^' '"^''"'^''"^ P''^^^^^^- Fph'7;\V" '^"■'? ^^r^f'-. ^y'^^' ''^^^'^ '-^"'^ dissonant clangor Lchoe.l the sound of their brazen drums from ceiling a • d casement. — b ^ EchruMl a moment only, and slowly th. ,,onderous portal soidieis "' ' "*" ^'"^ ""''"'^ awaited the will of the Then uprose their commander, and spake from the steps of tlie altar, ' Holding aloft in his hands, with its seals, the roval com^ mission. "'^''onierV''"'''"'''^ this day," he said, "by his Majesty's Clement and kind has he been ; but how you have answered nis kindness ^'^ t'cT.e?" '''''"'^' '^^'^^'' '^'^ '''^' °^*'''*^ ""^^^ ^^"'^ "^y Painful the task is I do, which to you I know must be grievous. Yet must I bow and obey, and deliver the will of our monarch^ EVANGELINE. 21 Namely that all your lands, and d- llings, and cattle of all kiiiils Forff-ited be to the crown ; and that you yourselves from this province Be tra.Ksported to other lands. God grant you may dwell Ever ^ as faithful subjects, a happy and peaceable peo- rrisuiRTs now I declare you, for such is his Majesty's pleasure 1 j j •^ As wlien the air is serene in the sultry solstice of summer, h liU r ^ ^^'"''"' """'^ '^'^ '^''''''^^-^' ^''"S "f the Heats down the farmei's corn in the field, and shatters his wimluws, Ilidin- the sun, and strewing the gmuiul with thatch from the house-roofs, B.llou-ing riy the h;.rds,and seek to bre.ik their enrlosuresl ho on the hearts ot the people descended the words ot the sjieaker. Silent a moment they stood in speechless wcmder, and then rose Lo.ider and ever louder a wail of sorrow aiul an^er An,i by one impulse moved, they madly rushed to the (ioor-way. Vain was the hope of escape; and cries and ♦leree im*? preeations Rang tlu-ougli the liouse of prayer ; and high o'er the heads 01 the otiicrs Kose with his arms uplifted, the figure of I5asil the I'laeksiiiith, As. on a stormy sea. a spar is tossed bv the billows l-his],ed was his face and distorted' with passion; and wiidlv lie sliouted. — ' .^ -Down with the tyrants of England I wo never have swon"! them allegiance ! Death to these foreign soldiers, who seize on our homes and our harvests ! " More he fain would liave said, but the merciless hand of a soldier Smote him upon the mouth, and dragged him down to the pavement. ^wr^J^e^^^ 22 EVANGELIXE. '^'^ pl'lph'''''""'"'"'" ^'"""°' •''"'^ *''"' ^'^ 'l'^^^ to J'i5 Si-ak,. 1,,.. as, alt.-r tho t.-csia-s alarum, distinctlv tl.e cI.S- srri i\ t 's, *^ Not, in u.u-,1 alnn... l.„t I. ,le,.,i, to luve one anoth..,- ! '^'"'luuv,!:' ""'"" '^'''^' '■"' ^"'^'•^« ovn-flou-in. with '"U;;,'S„r"'-^''"'''>-- what ...kness a„,l h,.,v ''■1-:.!;;;::;h::;V'i'^«^''^-i-tt^^^ I.a us .vjH.at^ it nun-. an,l sny, > Kath.r. forgivo thon> < "• i^^^-n.l,,su.nls.. n.ln.k., but deep n,^heh.an^ ^'"'outiin:;!;"^ ''"' "^ '■""'■•'^'^'" ^"^^^^J^'i t>'^ passionate 4 -i-T' .'ot with their lips alone, but their hearts; and the Ave Sang ti,.-y, aiul fell on their knees, and their souls, with tlovution translated, ^ ^^"''hea'ven'' ''''^'""' "^ ^'''^'"' ^^^^ ^^'^''^' ascending to ''and on au'def ^ '" ''' "^'^^^ ^^'^ ^'^""^^ ^^^ ''>' ^""li'uid " ^^^^'""''^ '^'"''' ^^-auj^'eline stood, with her right "'"IlesS-J^ng:''" '"'" ''' '''''' "^^ ^^ ^''^ -'"' ^^-*- ^'°''ro!lfed'eIclI'''^'' '^'''^ '"'"' '"i'^t^"""^ splendour, and ^'''''w'indou^"''"' ^'^^' °°^'^^" ^^'''^'^' ''""^ ^'"WazoiK.d its Long widiin had been spread the snow-white cloth on the ""'" wilfiowtrsl'"'''" '""'' ""^ ''' '°"'^' '''"'''''' '''''' ^'''TrumThe'dan'v ^"""'^ °^ ^''' '"'^ '^' '^'''' ^'''^' ^'^''^^'' ^"'^armer. ^''"'^'"^ '^'' ^""'^ *^^ ^reat arni-chair of t^lie Siew tl,e^lnn^''r,''''''*^' ^'' ^''^^''''' 'l^^'"' ^'^ ^he sunset in.'adows ° "' *'""' °'" ^'" ^'■'^•'^^^ ambrosial Ah ! on lu'.-spirit within a deeper shadow h.id fallon cemhll!!'"'^''' "' ''" ^°"' * ^^''^°'-^"- ^*-^l-^i'-l ''^- ^^'ISienci't'"''' ^"''' ""'^ '^°P^' ''^"'^ f'^rgiveness, and CWdnlJ ^Hh1^"1'^ 'f • '^' ^^•'^"dered into the village, wn L ""^' ^"'^ ^'^'■^^ *''« mournful hearts of the '^ ■^■^m^P^^^imWm', 24 EVANGELINE. As o'er the darkening fields with lingering steps thev de- parted, o r j «t- Urge(l by their household cares, and the weary feet of their Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glininieri'ns vapours ° ° Veile.l the light of his face, like the Prophet descending Sweetly over the village the hell of the Angelas sounded. Meanwhile, amid the gloom, by the church Evangeline lingered. ° All was silfiit within ; and in vain at the door and the windows ^ Stood siie, ;ind listened and looked, until, overcome bv emotion, •' "Ga;,viyy-^- '.V ^*^tf^^-, 26 EVANGELINE. Down from tho church to the shore, amid their wives and their (lau^'htcrs. j^j J^.reino.st the young men came ; and, raising together their voices, S:ing witii treiuuldus lips a chant of the C.itliolic Mis- sions : — "Sacred lieart of the Saviour.' () inoxhaustihh> fountain ' iMil our lioarts tins day with strength and .sui.mission and patience I " Then the old men. as tliey niandied, and the women that stood by tlie wayside r,-Q Joined in tfie sacred"" psalm, and tlie birds in the sunshine above them Minglc.l their notes therewith, like voices of spirits de- parted. Half-way down to the slioro Evangeline waited in silence .Not overcome with grief, but strong in the hour of attlic' tloM, — Calniiy and sadly slie waited, until tlie procession ai^proached her. ^^^ And she beheld the face of Gabriel pale with emotion lears then hlled her eyes, and, eagerly running to meet him, Clasped she his hands, and laid her head on his shoulder and \vliis])ered, — ' " G.-ibriel ! be of good cheer ! for if we love one .another Nothing, m truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may liappon ! '' , :„ Smiling she spake these words; then suddenlv paused, for her father ' Saw she, slowly advancing. Alas! how changed was his asi)ect ! Gone was the glow from his cheek, and the fire from his eye, and his footstep Heavier seemed with the weight of tlie heavy heart in his b(jsom. lUit with a smile and a sigh, she clasped his neck and em- braced him, , Si)eaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not. Thus to the Gaspereau's mouth moved on that mournful procession. EVANGELINE. 27 There disorder prevailed, aud the tumult and stir of era- nark my. linsily piled the freighte.l boats; and in the confusion ^Vlves wort- torn ^ro:n their luisbunds, and luoth.-rs. too ]:.t.. saw their eh l.ireu ^. ' Lt'ft on the hind, extending their arms, witl, wildest I'ntrcaties. So MMtu sepanitp ships were Basil an.l Gahri.'I carried nine in .lespairun the shore Evangeline stoo.i wit'h her latlier. Half the ta.sk was not done when the sun went duwn, and the twilight Doepone,! and darkened aroun.l ; and in haste the reflu.mt ocean FltMl away from the shore, and left the line of the saiuU lieach Covered with waifs of the tide, with kelp and the slippery sea-weed. I I J Farther hack in the midst of the household goods and the wagdiis, Like to a gypsy camp, or a leaguer after a battle, All eseap.' eut otf by the sea, and the sentinels rear tliriil. Li\ eneaniped for the night the houseless Acadian lariiiers. iKick to its nethermost caves retreated the bellowinff ocean, ° I)r.aggin^r ad„wn the i)each the rattling pebbles, and leaving Inland and tar up tiie shore the stranded boats of thl sailors. Then, as the night descended, the herds return ' from their pastures ; .^^ hwcet was the moist still air with the odour of milk h-um their udders; Lowing they waited, and long, at the well-known bars of the farin-yanl. — Waited and looked in vain for the voice and the hand of the milkmaid. Silence reigned in the streets ; from the church no An-'elus soui.ded, " Rose n .inoke from the roofs, and gleamed no lights from th. windows. jy^ ■•rtii,'- . . - \ ■ ■ ^ ■: - ■■.■^' " ^ A • 28 EVANGELINE. P.ut on tho shores meanwhile the evening fires had been kindled, Uuilt of the drift-wood thrown on the sands from wrecks in the tt'iiijx'st. Round theiu shapes of gloom and sorrowful faces were ^,';uhered, Voires o*' women were heard, and of men, and the cryint,' of children. Onward from fire to fire, as from hearth to heart'- in his liari.sh, 5,,5 \\and.Med the faithful i)ri.'.st, consoling and blessing and cheering, Like unto shipwrecked Paul on Molita's desolate sea-shore. IhuH he approache.l tho place where Evangeline sat with her father, And in the Hiekenng li-ht beheld the face of the old man, Haggard and hollow and wan, and without either thought or emotion, ,;jj^ E'en as the face of a clock from which the hands have been tak<'n. Vainly Evangeline strove with words and caresses to cheer him, Vainly utTered him food ; yet ho moved not, he looked not, he spake not, Put, with a vacant stare, ever gared at the flickering fire- light. '' Bni>:.Udtc/" murmured the priest, in tones of com- passion. ,.Q. More he fain would have said, but his heart was full, and his accents Faltered and paused on his lips, as the feet of a child on a threshold, Hushed by the scene he beholds, and the awful presence of sorrow. Silently, therefore, he laid his hand on the head of the maiden, Kaising liis tearful eyes to the silent stars that above them ,.j^ Moved on their way, unperturbed by the wrongs and sor- rows of mortals. Then sat he down at her side, and they wept together in silence. ^ r & ',...;^^--f-)^»pi^-7,,i;- evax(;kli\i:. 29 SufMcnly rose from tin- snutli a lij-ht, as iij autumn tlie bl(H)(l-re(J Muuii cliiiilis the ci-yul walls ct liraven, and oVr tin- ii(iri/iiu Titau-likf .stretches its Iminii.'-l li.iu.ls upon mountain and nn-aduw, , j. Seizing the rocks and the riv, is. and i.ilin^' Im-e sIkkI.m^.s t(i;,'etlicr. I'.i-n.id.T and ever broader il -If.iui.d .m the mut's of tlie villa-.', (.ili-anifd on tiie sky ;uid th.- si-a, and th.- siiii,., tiial l,t\ in flic roadstead. Columns of bhining smoke uprose, and tiashcs of tlinic were Thrust tlirou,i,'ii their folds and withdrawn, like the (ihiv.t- ing iiands of a martyr. ,;j„ Tiicn as the wind sci/.ud'the gleeds and the Imrnin- thatch, and, iij.Iiftinu'. Whirled them alolt throu-h the air, at once from a hundred Iiouse-tojis Start.-d tne sheeted smoke with flashes of ti.inie inter- mingh'd. These thing's brh.dd in dismay the cmwd on tlie shore and on shijilioard. Speeciiless at first they stood, then cried ahaid in their angnisli, ^..,,. "We shall helmkl no more our homes in the vilhu'e of (Jr.uid-I'ie ! ■' "^ Loud on a sudden the cocks began to crow in the farm- yards. Thinkin- the day had dawned ; and anon the lowing of cattle " Came on the evening breeze, bv tlie barking of (h,gs iiitcr- ru]ited. Then rose a sound of divad. sucli as starth's the sleei.iiK' encampments ^13^ Far in the western prairies of forests tliat skirt the Ne- braska, When the wild horses affrighted sweep by with the -need of the whirlwind, Or the loud bellowing herds of bulTaloes rush to the river. 80 EVAXfiKLINK. Sufh was the sniin.l tliat arose on the night, as the herds ami tht; hor.Sfs lin.k.- thro,-h th.ir fohls and fences, and madly rushed oVr il aduws «3» ()v..rul,..hncd with tho si-ht, yet speechless, th« priest and ihi' iiiaidcu Gaz.MJ on til.- scfiie of terror tiiat reddened and widened lifti'-,. tlicni ; An.i as tliry tinned at length tu sjieak to their sfleiit coin- ]iani()n, Lo : Jroni his seat he had fallen, and stretched abropd on the sea-shoie Motionlrss lay his form, from whieh the soul had .le- I>arted. ^.^^ Slowly the priest uplifted the lifeless head, and the maiden Knelt at her father's side, and wailed aloud in her terror Then m a swoon she sank, and lay with her head on h'is i^osom. Through the long night she lay in deep, oblivious slumber; And when she woke from the trance, she beheld a multi- tuile near her. ,;^^ Faces of friends she beheld, tliat were mournfully gaziiig upon her, Pallid, witli tearful eyes, and looks of saddest compassion. Still tiie blaze of the burning village illumined the land- scape, Keddcned tlio sky overhead, and gleamed on the faces around her. And like the day of doom it seemed to her wavering senses. uji^ Thru a familiar vo' • she heard, as it said to the people,— '• I-t't ns bury him here by the sea. When a happier season I'.riiii^'s us again to our homes from the unknown land of itur exile, Then shall his sacred dust be piously laid in the church- yard." Such were the words of the priest. And there in haste by the sea-side, ggj Having the glare of the burning village for funeral torches, Lut without bell or book, they buried the farmer of Grand- I*re. '}mMm:i^mm:.^^'a^^a^i^. fmr^''^-^-W '■ -^.i evax(;i:lixe. 31 Ami as tlie voice fif tlu" lu-ifst rcjHMtfil the st'rvicc of Lo ! with a iiioitnifiil souml like tlif vuice of u vast {nn- Siileiiuily aiiswcrt'il tlie sea. ami iiiiiit,'k'd its roar witli the (liru'fS. itio "1" was till' rL'tiiniiiiL,' tiilr, thai afar tri'iii the wastf of the oi'i'an, With the rii'>t ilawii of tlie day, came iieaviiig and liiirrym^' landwanl. Then ri'Cuiiiiiiciicfd onct; more the stir and noise of em- bark in _'; And with the i'l)l) of the tide tlie shijis saih'il out of the harlioi', Lea\ iiii; hfhiiid them the dead on the shore, and the villaPckon her for. Sometimes she spake n-ith thn.o ..t. i j , "» and known f.ini, '° '^° '^d seen her beloved EVANGELINE. 83 But it was long ago, in some far-off place or forgotten "Gabriel Lajeun.^se ! "' they saiil ; "Uli, yes! we have seen him. He was with Basil the blacksmith, and both have gone to the jirairies ; €oureurs-(les-bois are they, and famous hunters and tran- P'TS." ,^jj " Gabriel Lajeuuesse ! " said others ; " Oh, yes ! we have seen him. He is a voyageur in tiie lowlands of Louisiana." Then would they say, " LVar child! why dream and wait for hiin longer ? Are there not other youths as fair as Gabriel ? others ^\lio have hearts as tender and true, and spirits as loyal? .j^ Here is Jiaptiste Leblanc, the notary's son, who has loved thee Many a tedious year; come, give him thy hand and be "•■ippy I Thou art too fair to be left to braid St. Catherine's tresses." Then would Evangeline answer, serenely but sadlv "I cannot! Whither my heart has gone, there follows my hand, and not elsewhere. -jj For when the heart goes before, like a lamp, and illumines the pathway. Many things are made clear, that else lie hidden in dark- ness." Thereupon the priest, her friend and father confessor Saul, with a smile, "0 daughter! thy God thus speaketh within thee ! Talk not of wasted affection, affection never wai wasted; ...^ If It enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning" Lack to their springs, like the rain, sliall hll them full of retreshment ; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. Patience ; accomplish thy labour; accomplish thy work of affection I •' Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. ^25 ^^'' "-'1 &t'?-'K^,- '.^ ti^- 'f^'i w^mm^m^ 84 EVANGELINE. Therefore accoinplish thy labour of love, till the heart is made godlike, Purified strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy 01 heaven ! ' ■^ ^''""^rdted ^^'^ ^""""^ '"''''"'" '™'"'^'' ^^'■•'^"Seline laboured and Still in her heart she heard the funeral dirge of the ocean, J.ut with :t3 sound there was mingled a voice that whis- pered, " Despair not ! " ^3^^ Thus did that poor soul wander in want and cheerless dis- cnmfort, Bleedin,-, barefooted, over the shards and thorns of ex. istence. Let me essay, O Muse ! to follow the wanderer's foot- steps ; — Not through each devious path, each changeful year of existence; ° ^ ^^"^ v-dfe'''*'^^'^'" ^""^""'^ * streamlet's course through the Far from its margin at times, and seeing the gleam of "s w titer Here and there, in some open space, and at intervals only ''conceldti,""'''" '*' ^*"^'' '^''^"^'^ '>'^^^" S^^'^'"^ t^a't Though^ he behold it not, he can hear its continuous mur- """^Su'tlft ^'"^^^' '^ ^' ^""^ ^ 'P°' '^^"' '^' '^^^'^^ a" 740 II. ^^RTveV'^ """"'^ °^ ^^'''•^" ^" '^'''''" '^^ Beautiful Past the e- loiisas. 750 With them Evangeline went, and her guide, the Father Fi'lic'ian. Onward o'er sunken sands, through a wilderness sombre witli I'ort'sts, I);iy aftiT day they glided adown the turbulent river ; Niglit after night, by their blazing hres, encamped on its borders. Now through rushing chutes, among green islands, where phimelike 755 Cotton-trfes nodded their shadowy crests, they swept with the current, Then emerged into broad lagoons, where silvery sand-bars Lay in tlie stream, and along the wimpliug waves of their margin. Shining with snow-white plumes, large flocks of pelicans waded. Level the landscape grew, and along the Snores of the river, 7,;0 Shaded by china-trees, in the midst of luxuriant gardens, Stood the houses of planters, with negro cabins and dove- cots. They were apprcacliing the iCgion where reigns perpetual summer, Where throii-h the Golden Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the east- ward. 7,i5 They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish anil devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direc. n. Uver their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air 770 Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. .t^ •:, "^^"^^mm^M^r^^t^^T^^^. 86 EVANGELINE. ^^^^hetls^^ ^"^°°^ seemed, and unbroken, save by the OrZ H ^^'^'' r°'^^ '" "'^ cedar-trees returning at sunset, Or by the owl, as he greeted the moou with demoniac laufjnter. ^"'"'w^it^er'' """"""^'Sht was as it glanced and gleamed on the Gleanied on the columns of cypress and cedar sustaining tne arches, ° Down through whose broken vaults it fell as throueh en inks in a ruin, ° Dreamlike and indistinct, and strange were all things around them; ° '^"'^ sadness ^^^^''"*^ *^^'"® ^^^^ ^ ^^^^'"^ °^ wonder and Strange forebodings of ill, unseen and that cannot be com- |)iiSS6U« ^ As, at the tramp of a horse's hoof on the turf of the ^'"' mimtl^"'" "' '^"'"'^ *^'' ^'^''' °^ '^« shrinking So, at the hoof-beats of fate, with sad forebodings of evil aftainid i't *^' '^''''' "' ^^'' ''''^' of cSoom has ^"* fainuf ^'"''' ^'^^'^ '^''' sustained by a vision, that ^^'"moolS. ^'"" '^'"'' ^""^ ^''^°"'^ ^'' °° ^^''""Sh the It was the thought of her brain that assumed the shape of a pnantom. ^ Through those shadowy aisles had Gabriel wandered before ^'"'KZi'l'^"''^^ "^ ^^' °" "°^" '^'°"S'^* ^'^ nearer and SaT/;rfn,?H^'"''' f ""'^' ^^?^^"' ^^^« *^e^' peradventure''" 1 his b?gl ' °"'^' '"'^ '"'^"'S'^' ''^^"^^' ^^^^ * blast ^ " W^^tTa^'J,*^' ^"'^ colonnades and corridors leafy the w^fH n jw~< EVANGELINE. 37 Breaking the seal of silence and giving tongues to the forest. Soumlless al>ove them the banners of moss just stirred to the music. 795 Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance, Over tht; watery floor, and beneath the reverberant branches ; Hut not a voice replied ; no answer came from the darkness ; And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was tlie silence. Then Eviin-eline slept ; but the boatmen rowed through the mulnii^ht, 800 Silent at times, then singinj,' familiar Canadian boat-songs, Such as they sang of old on their own Acadian rivers, \Vliile throuLjh tlie night were heard the mysVerious sounds of the desert. Far off, — indistinct. — as of wrivo or wind in the forest, Mixed with tlie whoop of the cru: c and the roar of the grim alligator. 805 Thus ere another noon they emerged from the shades ; and before them Lay, in the golden sun, the lakes of the Atchafalaya. Water-lilies in myriads rocked on the slight undulations Made by the passing oars, and, resplendent in beauty, the lotus Lifted her golden crown above the heads of the lx)at- men. 810 Faint ^\as the air with the odorous breath of magnolia blossoms. And with the heat of noon ; and numberless sylvan islands, Fragrant and thickly embowered with blossoming hedges of roses, Near to wiiose shores they glided along, invited to slumber. Soon by the fairest of these their weary oars were sus- pended. 815 Under the boughs of Wachita willows, that grew by the margin. Safely their boat was moored; and scattered about on the greensward. Tired with their midnight toil, the weary travellers slum- bered. aw«ft« jffi«^ja^Mi£:-'a^ «rjg5inB SH EVANGELINE, Ov.;r tho.n vast ami Ingh extended the cope of a cedar ''''i^nitviT' ''' ^'''''^ '"''"^' ^^'"^ trumpet-Hower and the Hun.jj tla.ir ladder of ropes aloft like the ladder of Jacob '° sclM.dmr' ""' ''""■' '^'^ '"^"Sels ascending, de- ^^''''T.hlis.Mn''^ i""""ii"g-l>irds, that flitted from blossom to ''''"'' m'aVi'r '''''"" '■^"=^"«''^'"« «a^^ as she slumbered be- ''""ll..av''n'""' '"'"'^ "''^'' ^°'''' ^"^ ^^^ '^'^^"" °^ ''^" 0P^^»i".^' Ligl.t..d her soul in sleep with the glorj of regions celestiS Nearer ovor n.-aror. among the numberless islands, )arted a hght, swilt boat, that sped au-ay o'er the water 'tappers' '""''' ^'' "'' '^"'"^ "'"'"^ "^ lu.ute;s and '^'^ ^eiin'wonr'^ " ''""^''' ''''^^ countenance thoughtful and ^^'"luln ess"""'''"^'"^ ''"^' overshadowed his brow, and a GabH 'l ' w .'"'•?'"' ',''' ■■''"'■' "" ^''' ^'''' '''^' l^-^il>'y "-"tten. ^""t'.n-ow.^''' ^^''''''" '''^^^' °'^^^^'^*^" °f «^lf '-^"d "f wilhl"-:!;''''' ""' '' ^^^' ''^'"' ^* lay conceiled in the '"' Tlle'sh^'rV;-' "" ^^'"^ "^ '^'^'' °'"' ""^ ""^^^"' ^^^••^ '^""mai.lenr^ ''''' *'"'*' "''"' *° ^"'•'^'" *^'« sluml,ering '"^"'^praide?' ^'^''''^ '^'''"' ^'^' '^'' '^''''^' ^^ ^ '^^^^ o» t^^'e '^^''distan'(^;'!"'' ""^ ''"'' ''■'" "" *^' ^^''^'^ ^'""^ ^'^^ i° the As from a magic trance the sleepers awoke, and the maiden EVAXGELIXE. 39 Said with a sigh to the friendly priest, "O Father Feliciaii ! SDiiietliiiig says in my heart that near me Gabriel wan- diTS. 845 Is it a foolish dream, an idle and vague superstition ? Ur has an angel passed, and revealed the truth to my spirit ? ■' Then, with a blush, she added, " Alas for my credulous fancy ! I'nto ears like thine such words as these have no meaning." lint made answer tlie reverend man, and he smiled as he answered, — 850 '■ Daughter, thy words are not idle ; nor are they to me williout meaning. Feeling is deep and still ; and the word that floats on the surface Is as till- tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is liiddon. Tlierrfon- trust to thy lieart, and to what the world calls illusions. Gabriel truly is near tliee ; for not far away to the south- ward, ><55 On tlie hanks of the Teche, are the towns of St. Maur and St. Martin. There the long-wandering bride shall be given again to her bridegroom. There tlie long-absent pastor regain his flock and his sheep- fold. Beautiful is the land, with its prairies and forests of fruit- treeb ; Under the feet a garden of flowers and the bluest of heavens 8(iO InMidiiig alx)ve, and resting its dome on the walls of the forest. They who dwell there have named it the Eden of Lou- isiana." With these words of cheer they arose and continued their journey. Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden wand o'er the land- scape ; 860 40 EVANGELINE. Twinkling vapors arose ; and sky and water and forest beemed all on tire at the touch, and welted and niincled together. ° Hanging between two skies, a cloud with edges of silver Hoated the boat, with its dripping oars, on the motionless water. Filled was Evangeline's heart with inexpressible sweet- ness. ^.^ Touchea by the magic spell, the sacred fountains of feeling Glowed with the light of love, as the skies and waters around her. Then from a neighbouring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hi; : o'er the water bliook from his little throat such tiouds of delirious music, ^^j That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad ; then soarincr to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamenta- tion; Till, having gathered them all, he flung them abroad in derision, ^^^ As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the tree- tops Shakes down the rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches. With sueh a prelude as this, and hearts that throbbed with emotion, Slowly they entered the Teche, where it flows through the green Opelousas, And through the amber air, above the crest of the wood- Saw the column of smoke that arose rom a neighbourine dwelling ; — Ob Sounds of a horn they heard, and the distant lowing of EVANGELINE. 41 m. Near to t)ie bank of the river, o'ersbadowed by oaks from whose branches Garlaiuls of SpHiiish moss and of mystic mistletoe flaunted, tSiii'h as tlu.' I>ruids cut down with gohlen hatchets at Yule- tide, S'.tO Stoo;dC»;';,/'°™ '■■» '-- -^ «Pra„g i„ a,„a„„,™. I'lacksMith. '"'■ "'«)' fW'giiised liasil tl,e S'V:^r'aTK;s'?„LV^,;'i;i;\fi?'' '° '"« ^-''™ answer ^""^ ^^'"' endless question and *'"■ o,'!lS;;^:" '" ""■' '"""''• -" — <1 the. Wendly ';""to;:i.„s;;l. """"-^ "^ '"-. °r ^^ttm, siie„t a., ^'■°'s:^;;;!;;°;,S""^'' ""-^ «"^ -" --^ <>"* do„u, U'r^;r, '■'•■"•"■'•= '-'i -J "-U, somewhat eS! KVANGELIXE 43 Ikuke the silence aiul said, "If you came by tlie Atcha- 1I..W liav... you nowhere encountered n.v Gabriel's boat on tin- bayous ? " Over Evangeline's face at the word? of Hasil a siiade passed l>-ars came into her ey, s, and sl.j said, with a tieinul..,n accfiit, , •' fJf.ne ? is Gabi ..d gone ■.' " and, .■-ncealing her face on i'.is sliouldi'r, Ail U.v nVrburdened lieart gave wav, and sh.- wei.t and iiinn-ntcd. ' Then the Ke the calm of this quiet existence liiiiikiu- ever of th.'e, urieertain and sorrovvinl ever yor silent, or speaking only ni thee and his troui.l.vs II" at length l,ad become so tedious to m.'u an.l to iiiaiiiens, T,d,o„,s even to me, that at length I bethought me, and sent him Unto the town of Adayes to trade for mules with tlie ojianiards. Thenee^he will follow the Indian trails to the Ozark Moun- """belrven' ^"''' "' ^''' ^'"'''*'' "" "''"" trmnug the '^'''' 'lover . '"" "^ ^"'"^ ''''*'"' '^® '"'^^ ^""^^"'^ t^e fugitive "" 'a.!'nnh ''" •"' ''^''■'*"'^ ^^' ^*'**^' ^"d the streams are tif.,'! 1 list iniu . ^'^' 'mnrniV *""'"''""'''' ^"'^ through the red dew of the We will follow him fast, and bring him back to his prison." '^''IZS'^ '■"''"' ''"' ^^'''^' '''"^' "P f^o"" the banks of tile 1 1 \ "r. ^^'"'"tiddler' "" ^''' '^'"'■^*^"^' "'»S' came Michael the 960 ^ssi^fii^msr^srs^sa^s^. -^,' li.-ive 1m»ii frieiidliss and liomelcss, Welconif once more to a honu', that is better pfrcliaiii'f tli;in thi' o!il one ! Ilfic no luin^,'ry winter conj^'eals our iildod lilasil the herdsman. jqj^ Mt-rry the meeting was of ancient comrades and neighbours : Frifiid clasjied friend in his arms ; and they who before were as strangers, Meeting in exile, became straightway as friends to each other. Drawn by the gentle bond of a common country together. But in the neighbouring liall a strain of music, proceed- brom the accordant strings of Michael's melodious fiddle, Broke up all further speech. Away, like children delighted, All things forgotten beside, they gave themselves to the maddening Whirl of the dizzy dance, as it swept and swayed to the niusie, Dreamlike, with beaming eyes and the rush of fluttering garments, j(,oo Meanwhile, apart, at the head of the hall, the priest and the herdsman Sat, conversing together of past and present and future ; While Evangeline stood like one entranced, for within her Olden memories rose, and loud in the midst of the music Heard she the sound of the sea, and an irrepressible sad- ness J025 Came o'er her heart, and unseen she stole forth into the garden . Beautiful was the night. Behind the black wall of the to rest, Tij)ping its summit with silver, arose the moon. On the river Fell here and there through the branches a tremulous gleam of the moonlight. Like the sweet thoughts of love on a darkened and devious .. sP'^t- , 103O ^eare^ and round about her, the manifold flowers of the garden fafftHRBUBar— *.^»«»- ;*■ ssisa*^ EVANGELINE. 47 Toured out their souls in odours, that were their prayers and confessions Unto the night, as it went its way. like a silent Carthusian. Fuller of fragrance than tlioy, and as heavy with shadows and nif;ht-u it, and fire-Hies (ileaming and floating away in mingled and infinite num- bers. 1"10 < »ver her head the stars, the thoughts of God in the heavens, Shone on the eyes of man, who had ceased to marvel and wur.-liii', Save wli'ii a blazing comet was seen on the walls of that teiii|ili', As if a hand had appeared and writ upon them, " Uphar- sin." And the soul of the maiden, between the stars id the fire- tlii-S, 1045 "Wandered alone, and she cried, " <) Gabriel ! O my be- loved ! Art thou so near unto me, and yet I cannot behold thee ? Art thou so near unto me, and yet thy voice does not reach me ? Ah ! how often thy feet have trod this path to the prairie ! Ah I how (iften thine eyes have looked on the woodlands around me! 1050 Ah! how often beneath this oak, returning from labour. Thou hast lain down to rest, and to dream of me in thy slumbers ! When shall these eyes behold, these arms be folded about thee ? " Loud and sudden and near the note of a whippoorwill sounded Like a flute in the woods ; and anon, through the neighbour- ing thickets 1055 J 48 EVANGELINE. Farther and farther away it floated and dropped into silence. " Patience ! " whispered the oaks from oracular caverns of darkness ; And, from the moonlit meadow, a sigh responded "To- morrow I " Bright rose the sun next day ; and all the flowers of the garden Batlied his shining feet with their tears, and anointed his tresses y^^.^ With the delicious balm tliat they bore in their vases of frystal. '• Farewell ! " said the i)riest, as he stood at the shadowy threshold ; " See that you bring us the Prodigal Son from his fasting and famine, And, too, tlie Foolisli Virgin, who slept when the bride- groom was coming.'" " Farewell ! " answered the maiden, and, smiling, with Basil descended j^gj Down to the river's brink, where the boatmen already were waiting. Thus beginning their journey with morning, and sunshine, and gladness, Swiftly they followed the flight of him who was speeding before them, Blown by the blast of fate like a dead leaf over the desert. Not that day, nor the next, nor yet the day that suc- ceeded, 10-0 Found they trace of his course, in lake or forest or river. Nor, after many days, had they found him ; but vague and uncertain Rumours alone were their guides through a wild and deso- late country ; Till, at the little inn of the Spanish town of Adayes, Weary and worn, they alighted, and learned from the gar- rulous landlord J075 That on the day before, with horses and guides and com- panions, Gabriel left the village, and took the road of the prairies. ■,:sim:<=i*ezwif EVANGELINE. 49 nr. Far in the West there lies a desert land, where the mountains Lift, through perpetual snows, their lofty and luiuiuous summits. Down from their jag^'ed, deep ravines, where the gorge, likfi a gateway, i"'^^ Opens a passage rude to the wheels of the emigruul s wagon, "Westward the Oregon flows and the Walleway and()\vyhft'. Eastward, with devious course, among the Wind-river Mountains, Tlirough the Sweet-water Valley precipitate leaps the Nfl)raska ; And to the south, from Fontaine-qui-bout and the Spanish sierras, i'"'^ Frt'ttcd with sands and rocks, and swept by the wind of the desert, Isumberless torrents, with ceaseless sound, descend to the ocean, Like the great chords of a harp, in loud and solemn vibra- tions. Spreading between these streams are the wondrous, beau- tiful prairies, Billowy bays of grass '^' or rolling in shadow and sun- shine, 1090 Bright with luxuriant clusters of roses and purple amor- phas. Over them wandered the buffalo herds, and the elk and the roebuck ; Over them wandered the wolves, and herds of riderless horses ; Fires that blast and blight, and winds that are weary with travel ; Over them wander the scattered tribes of Ishmael's children, io«» Staining the desert with blood; and above their terrible war-trails Circles and sails aloft, on pinions majestic, the vulture, Like the implacable soul of a chieftain slaughtered in battle, 50 EVANGELINE. By invisible stairs ascending and scaling the heavens Here and there rise smokes from tlie camps of tliese savage luarauders; „^ Hero and there rise groves from the margins of swift-run- ning rivers; And the grim, taciturn bear, the anchorite monk of the desert, Climl.s down their dark ravines to dig for root.-, bv the brook-side, And over all is the sky, the clear and crystalline hcavcM Like the protecting hand of God inverted above them. ii05 Into this wonderful land, at the base of the Ozark Moun- tains. Gabriel far had entered, with hunters and trappers behind him. Day after day, with their Indian guides, the maiden and Kasil Followed his flying steps, and thought each day to o'ertake him. Sometimes they saw, or thought they saw, the smoke of his camp-fire j„^ Kise in the morning air from the distant plain : but at nightfall. When they had reached the place, they found only embers and aslies. And, though their hearts were sad at times and their bodies were weary, Hopo still guided them on, as the magic Fata Morgana bhowed them her lakes of light, that retreated and vanished before them. ^^^^ Once, as they sat by their evening liro, there silently entered ^ Into the little camp an Indian woman, whose features Wore deep traces of sorrow, and patience as great as her sorrow. She was a Shawnee woman returning home to her people, iJrom the far-off hunting-grounds of the cruel Caman- ches, Where her Canadian husband, a coureur-des-bois, had been murdered. EVANGELINE. 51 Touched were their hearts at her story, and warmest and triendliest w elcome Gave they, with words of cheer, and she sat and feasted anioiiL; them On the butTaln-ineat and the venison cooked on the embers. But when their meal was done, and Basil and all his r.>in- jMiuons. "-•' Worn witli the long day's march and the cliasc of tlie dvcv and tilt' bison. Strctchi'il themselves on the ground, and slept where the nniveriiiL; fire-liu'ht Flashed on tiieir ;■• rthy cheeks, and their forms wrapped up in tlieir bl -iets, Then at the door oi Evangeline's tent she sat and repeated Slowlv, with soft, low voice, and the charm of her Indian aceent, . "''^^ All the tale of her love, with its jdeasures, and pains, and reverses. Muoli Evangeline wept at the tale, and to know that another Hapless lieart like her own had loved and had been dis- appointed. Moved to the depths of her soul by pity and woman s com- passion. Yet in her sorrow pleased that one who had suffered w;is near her, ^'-'^ She in t\ii-n related her love and all its disasters. Mute with wonder the Sliawnee sat, and when she had ended Still was mute; but nt length, as if a mysterious liorror Passed through her brain, she spake, and repeated the tale of the Mowis ; Mowis, the bridegroom of snow, who won and wedded a maiden. ^^^^ But, when the morning came, arose and passed from the wigwam, . Fading and melting away and dissolving into the sunshine, Till she beheld him no more, tliough she followed far into tlie forest. Then, in those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation, Told she the tale of the fair Lilinau, who was wooed by a phantom, "** 52 EVANGELINE. Tliat, through the pines o'er her father's lodge, in the hush of the twiliglit. Breathed like the evening wind, and whispered love to the maiden, Till she followed his green and waving plume through the forest, Aud nevermore returned, nor was seen again by lier peoj.le. Silent witli wonder and strange surprise, Evangelint^ listened 1,,^, lo the soft flow of her magical words, till the region around her Seemed like enchanted ground, and her swarthy guest the eiich:uitri'ss. Slowly over the tops of the Ozark Mountains the moon rose. Lighting the little tent, and with a mysterious splendour Touching the sombre leaves, and embracing and tilling the woodluiid. ,j.. With a delicious sound the brook rushed by, and the branches Swayed and sighed overhead in scarcelv audible whispers. I'lik'd with the thoughts of love was Evangeline's lieart, but a secret, Subtile sense crept in of jjain and indefinite terror. As the cold, poisonous snake creei)s into the nest of the swallow. jjgg It was no eartlily fear. A breath from the region of spirits Seemed to float in the air of night; and she felt for a moment That, like the Indian maid, she, too, was pursuing a phantom. With this thought she slept, and the fear and the phantom had vanished. Early upon the morrow the march was resumed, and the Shawnee jjg. Said, as they journeyed along, — " On the western slope of ther.il mountains Dwells in his little village the Black Kobe chief of the Mission. Much he teaches the people, and tells them of Mary and Jesus f EVANGELINE. u Loud laugh their hearts with joy, and weep with pain, a« they hear him." ■ ^ ^„^ Then, with a sudden and secret emotion, Evangeline an 11170 " Let us go to the Mission, for there good tidings await us' " Thither they turned their steeds; and behind a spur of the luouutains, Just as the sun went down, they heard a murmur of voices, \,ul in a meadow green and broad, by the bank of a river, Saw the tents of the Christians, the tents of the Jesuit Mission. . , , , .,/^" Un'tiMu-s on the """;:';;;^,i;l™J"""'"" »'«■'• -"> '- '».«».. ...!,.„ „,„, "'":;■ ■„';.7. ■"■■"■'^'■■"" '"- »"'• s--™s piuagc.'i'; ^"■".."llen;'-""""" "'■''"'" «" '-"- -s „„ske„, a„J J,e "'"tt,"' ""'■" '■'"<"'-• "■". '" that betokene.1 a ''"^onLtir'''' '""»''"'■ -J -*•' i« " thief i,, the EVANGELINE. 65 Kven the blood-red ear to Evangeline brought not her lover, 1215 " Patience I " the priest would say; "have faith, and tJiy jiniyer will be answered ! Look at this vigorous plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See liow its leaves are turned to the north, as true as tlie niagiict; Tliis is tlie compass-flower, that the finger of (iml has planted Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's jdur- II, .y !-■-'» < Kei- tlie sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of tlie deseit. Sucli in tlie soul of nut!: is faith. The blossoms of passion, Ciay and luxuriant flowers, are brighter and fuller of fr;i,\'i'aiiee, lUit tiny beguile us, and lead us astray, and their odour is d.;..l!y. Only tiiis humble plant can guide us here, and here- alirr Vi-25 Crown us with asphodel flowers, that are wet with the dews of nepenthe." So came the autumn, and passed, and the winter — yet Gabriel came not ; Blossomed the opening spring, and the notes of the robin ai d bluebird Sounded sweet upon wold and in wood, yet Gabriel came not. But on the breath of the summer winds a rumour was wafted 1230 Sweeter than song of bird, or hue or odour of blossom. Far to the north and east, it said, in the Michigan forests, Gabriel liad his lodge by the banks of the Saginaw River. And, with returning guides, that sought the lakes of St. T/iwri'Uee, Saying a sad farewell, Evangeline went from the Mis- sion. 1235 When over weary ways, by long and perilous marohes, Slie had attained at length the dej)ths of the Jlicliigan forests. Found she the hunter's lodge deserted and fallen to ruin ! 66 EVANGLLINE. ^'"^Tinicrjlf- _'^''^"' far was seen the wandering Now iu the Tents of Grace of the n.eek Moravian Missii"! ^ow IU tlie noisy cami.s and the battle-fields of the army Now in secluded hamlets, in towns and populous cities. Like a phantom she came, and passed away unremembered. t air was she and young, when in hope began the lone journey ; ° » Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended!'* beauT-" ' ^'*'^' ^^"''' something away from her Leaving behind it, broader and deeper, the gloom an. tne shadow. Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray o'er her foreheatl, & j ^» Dawn of another life, that broke o'er her earthly hori- zon, •' As in the eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning*! In that delightful land which is washed by the Dela- ware's waters, Guarding in sylvan shades the name of Penn the apostle. Stands on the banks of its beautiful stream the city ho founded. *' There all the air is balm, and the peach is the emblem of , ^<'''i"ty. J255 And the streets still reecho the names of the trees of the torest, As if they fain would appease the Dryads whose haunts they molested. There from the troubled sea had Evangeline landed, an exile, ' Fin.ling among the children of Penn a home and a country. There old Rend Leblauc had died; and when he de- parted, Saw at his side only one of all his hundred descendants Something at least there was iu the friendly streets of the city, EVAXCELINE. 6T Somothing that spake to her heart, a:ul made her no loi jjer a stranger ; pleased with the Thee and Thou of the Aiiil hiT ear was plea (.^uakiTS, I'(ir it recalled the past, the old Acadian country, 136* Where all men were equal, and all were brothers and sisters. So. wlit'ii the fruitless search, the disappointed endeavour, Kmlfd, to recomnience no more upon earth, unconiplaininp. Tlullit-r. as leaves to tlie light, were turned her the "hla and her ioutsteps. As tioni a mountain's top the rainy mists of the morn- ing 1270 Kirll away, and afar we behold the landscape below us, Suu-illuniined, with shining rivers and cities .d hamlets, So fell tin; mists i'roni her mind, and she sav *\\e world far below her, Daik no lunger, but all illumined with love ; and the path- way Which "she had climbed so far, lying sm( ith and lair in the (li-tanee. 1275 Galiii'I was not forgotten. Within her luart was his image, Clollied in the U'auty of love and youth, as last she beheld him. Only more beautiful made by his deathlike silence and alisence. Into liri- thoughts of him time entered not, for it was not. Over him years had no power; he was not changed, but transtigured ; 1280 He ]i:id become to her heart as one who is dead, and not aiiscnt ; Patience and abnegation of self, and devotion to others, This was the lesson a life of trial and sorrow had taught her. So was her love diffused, but, like to some odorous spices, Suffered no waste nor loss, thougli tilling the air with aroma. 1285 Other hope had she none, nor wish in life, but to follow, Meekly with reverent steps, the sacred feet of her Saviour. Thus many years she lived as a Sister of Mercy; fre- quenting Lonely and wretched roofs in the crowded lanes of the city, 68 EVANGELINE. Wliere distrpss and want concealed themselves from the SUIlllgllt, ' Wh.-n- .i,s..as^ and sorrow in garrets languished neglecS ^.gl.t aft.T n>,-ht wh.n the woihl was asleep, as the watch- Lou. I. through the gusty streets, that all was well in the High at some lonely win.low he saw the light of her taper Day af -r day, m the gray of the dawn, as slow through the J'h.dde.l the German farmer, with Howers and fruits for 'the ^'''^!'r,^''''' "'*''-''*' i''^^*^ ^^'^^'' '•^•t"'"'"g home from its Then it came to pass that a pestilence fell on the city, pfgeons ''""''^'"''^ "»""' '^'"J "'"^^'y I'y Hocks of wild ''"t'aws'li'r '"" '" "'"•■ "*"'''' "■'^'' "^"fe'^'^ i" their ciaws l)ut an acorn. And us the tides of the sea arise in the n.onth of iZ ^^'''nie'ulmv ,'*' "''" '*''"''""' ^'" '' '^'''"^' ^" ^ ^""^^ '" '^e So death Hooded life, and, o'erflowing its natural margin !.pprelr ; ^''''" '" ^"^'' "'^^ ^^^"^^ ^° «h"'"' ^he .•i.S ''°*""' " ° ''^'^ "''^''" ^"^"^^ norfttend- Ciept away to die in the almshouse, home of the homeless woodlands ;^"'' '' ''''''' '" '''' ^''''' "^ ".eadowfaud ^''"''wlcko^ '"""""'^' •'' ^"' ^*'"' ^'^^> 't« gateway and Meek.^in the midst of splendour, its humble walls seem'^Jo ^''' w.th'y^u/' ' °^ '^" ''"'^ '■ - " ^^^ p°°^ y' ^^^^y^ t^-e ^'"''rh'e .l4"J^^* ^"'^ ^^ ^^^' '*"' ^^'^ Sister of >rercy. EVANGELINE. 59 Ijooked up into her face, and thought, indeed, to behold there , , , , i Gli-ains of celestial light encircle her forehead with splen- dour, . , . i^i* Such as the artist iiuints o'er the brows of saints and apostles. Or siioli as hangs by night o'er a city seen at a (listnnce. I'lito tlieir eyes it seeiiud the hiinps of tlie city celesliiil, Into whose shining gates erelong their spirits would enter. Tliu'*, on a Sabbath morn, through the streets, deserted and silent, >''-0 Wending her quiet way, she entered the door of the alms- liouse. Sw.'et on the summer air was the odour of flowers in tlie garden, Aiiil slie paused on her way to gather the fairest among l!"'n>. ■• , ■ r Thitt the dying once more might rejoice in their fragrance and beautv. Then, as she mounted the stairs to the corridors, cooled by tlio east-wind, '^25 Ui>t;int and soft on her ear fell the chimes from the beltiy of Christ Ciinrch, While, intermingled with these, across the meadows were w;dteil . Sounds of j)salms, that were sung by the Swedes in their clmrcli at Wicaco. Soft as descending wings fell the calm of the hour on her spirit ; Something within her said, "At length thy trials are ended;" "ao And, with light in her looks, she entered the chambers ot sickness. Noisele,s.slv moved about the assiduous, careful attendants, Moistening the feveri.sii lij), and the aching brow, and in silence Closing the sightless eyes of the dead, and concealing their faces. Where on their pallets they lay, like drifts of snow by the roadside. 13S3 Many a languid head, upraised as Evangeline entered, 60 EVANGELINE. Turned on its pillow of pain to gaze while she passed, for her presence Fell on their hearts like a ray of the sun on the walls of a prison. And, as she looked around, she saw how Death, the con- soler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it for ever. *^* Many familiar forms had disappeared in the night time ; Vacant their places were, or tilled already by strangers. Suihlenly, as if arrested by fear or a feeling of wonder. Still she stood, with her colourless lips apart, while a shud- der Ran through her frame, and, forgotten, the flowerets dropped from her fingers, 1346 And from licr eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That tl-e (lying heard it, and started up from their pillows. On the ;::illet before her was stretched the form of an old man. , i i • Long, and ihin, and gray were the locks that shaded his temples; ^^'^^ But, as he lay in the morning light, his face for a moment Seemed to assume once more the forms of its earlier man- hood ; So are wont to be changed the faces of those who are dying. Hot and red on his lip.^ still burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had besprinkled its ])ort;ils. "55 That the Angel of Death might see the sign, and pass over. Motionless, senseless, dying, he lay, and his spirit ex- hausted . Seemed to be sinking down through infinite depths in the darkness. , • , • Parkuess ol slumber and death, for ever sinking and sinking. Then thl■ou^h those realms of shade, in multiplied re- verberations, ^^^ Heard he that cry of pain, and through the hush that suc- ceeded EVANGELINE. 61 Whispered a gentle voice, in accents te r-ncl saintlike, " Gabriel! my beloved ! " and died av "ito silence. Then he beheld, in a dream, once mor -; e home of his childhood; Green Acadian meadows, with sylvan rivers aiiiong thcin, 1365 Village, and mountain, and woodlaiuls ; and, walking under tiieir shadow, . As in tlie days of her youth, Evangeline rose in his vision. Tears came into his eyes ; and as slowly he littod lus Vanished the vision away, but Evanguline knelt by his bedside. Vainlv he strove to whisper her name, fur the accents uii- UtbTOd , , , ^,. ^ 1^''" Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. , i Vainly lie strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him. Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. 8weet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a case- ment. ^^'^ All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, .0,1 All tlie 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 hi'ad to her bosom, , J Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured, "Father. 1 th'aiik thee ! " i''«'^ 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 citv, they lie, unknown and unnoticed. iXailv the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them, 13»5 62 EVANGELINE. Thousands of throbbing hearts, where theirs are at rest ami for ever, Thousands of aching brains, where theirs no longer are busy, Thousands of toiling hands, where theirs have ceased from tlitir labours, Thousands of weary feet, where theirs have completed their journey ! Still stani.r the forest primeval ; but under the shade of its branches 1^9® Dwells another race, with other customs and langua;:ce. Only along the shore of the mournful and misty Atlantic Linger a few Acadian peasants, whose fathers from exile Wandered back to their native hind to die in its bosom. In the fisherman's cot tlie wheid and the loom are still busy ; "95 Maidt-ns still wear their Xorman caps and their kirtles of homespun, And by the evening fire repeat Evangeline's story, While from its rocky caverns the deei^voiced, neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers ihe wail of the forest. NOTES. PART THE FIRST. rUKLUDK. 1-fi. The dignity ainl music of this ]>a.-;sacc form a fitting introdaction to till; ht-aiitv of the pnem. It iii;i\ lie imtnl tliiU tlie "forest primeval" Iii"i SMiiip (li.-it:iiice awiiv from Graml I'rc ami tln' dike lands. .1. l)Rt ids: — I'ricsts of the ancient Celts of liritain. They j ssrssed kiiowlidire of many sulijoits, incliid'iif^ f^eonictry an. Longfellow «as a lover of the .sea. He felt "the eternal brother- hood of man with ocean " Kead such poems a.s Tlie Huildin;; of the Ship, My Lost Youth, Sir Humphrey (Jilhert, or The Secret of the Sea. s. The picture of the startled roe Hntu ipates the tragedy of the story. ly. AiADiK wxs tirst c'lled (adie; afterwards Accadia, cr L'Acadie. The name is probably a French ada])tation of a common Micmac word fignifyintj "place" or " regiou." It survives in several names of places, such as Shuheuacadie, and (iu its Knglish form) (^uoddy Head, i'aiisama- quuddy. I. 2.1. Granp Pre literally means " larjre meadow." The village, in lT.").i, lay near the moiili of the (iaspt nau, and C(jnsisted of small wooden houses scattered over a distance of about ,-» mile and a half. It probablv ftraLTijIfil .ilong the erltre of the ujdands b.etwcen what are now the rail- way stations of (irand I're and Ibirton Landiii;;. -'4. As noted in tlie Introduction, the oriLrinal Aoadians c.ime out in ir,.'!."?-."!-* with the Inncli adviiuurers |)c Ka/illy and Charin.sav. They had left a iiiarsli country, and t \ naluralh applieil their knowledge to reclaiming their new hinds. M:iny ' t lie old French dikes are still to 1)« found, in an e.xcellcnt s'atc ■ f preservation. '2^. The expression riiuii i.evt is wel' applied to the hnge tides of Vundy, whii li have a ri,-e and fall of some fifty feet. Klood-g.ates wer« pl;iced ill the dikes sroiluce a hiiidscaiK' that he never saw. .'U 'I'liK IlKMtiKs reijiMcd lietween 1547 and IGIO. As Acadie was toloni^' •(! early in the seventeenth century, the connection is obvious. 36. H XSK.MKST : — Here siL'nitiis w li.ii we wnnld call the f:ronnd-rioor. 40. 'I'lip distaff was the stii k wliiian monan-h, o' rp foiin.l a heantiful plane tree. So (.'real was Ids admiration tliat he ilothed it gorgeously and (daced it under the care of a guard. \'2. ('/. l^ampliell, To the Kveninu' Star. Kl.^ewhere Longfellow translates as follows a ])a.s,»age in Dante's 1 ^ina Comin^ ia : — " Dav was departing, and the inibrowtinl air Kelea.xed tlie ardmals tliat are on eartli From their fatigues." 1«5. It is probable that wolve.s were common throuijhout Nova Scotia in tlie Acadian time. The Acadian'^ pititioned the govi'rnnient under (late of June 10th, 175.-), for the return of tlieir arms, sayini: "... our guns are absolutely neces>ary to us ... to defend our cattle wliicli are attacked Ijv wild bea.-^ts." L'l". Tiie last two words are " onomatopoetic " : they represent the bound of the thing signified. LI. i;i'.t-:il 7 contain a channirii: jiidnre. li.i2-.3. Here we have the first hint of tiie tragic c^ents a!)out to hajipen. •I'M. See note to 1. ,524. 240. The full text of " Hi.s Majesty's M.indate " will !« found in Ilali- burton's History, i. 176. or I'arkman's Montcalm and W'olte, i. 27.1. His .Majesty, of course, was King (ieorire II. 249. " Louisburg wa.s in its time the striiigest fortress in N th .\nier- ica. . . . It w.-us begun bv the French shortly after the Treaty ol It recht to coinmanil the fisheries and the apjiroach by sea to Canada " h* ("itifica- tii'ns were of great magintude, occupied tliirty years in Imildini,'. and cost upwards of ?.'),(K»0,0(X). It Wit-; an oliject of mucli uriea.~iness ti> the Lng- li.-h. In 174.5 It was captured by an exiiedition from New Kn;;land, Three vcars later it was restored to France at the Treaty of Aix laC'lia|ielle. L'liii.-bnri; w,is finally caiitiired, ami destro\ed, in 17.58. l5ean>cjonr w.is a French fort on tlie l>ttimus of Cliignecto. The hill on whi(h it w.as built looks straii:ht down the Hay of Fuiidy and pos- sesses a commanding position. It wa« captured by the Knglish in .June, IT.5.5, and its name changed to Fort ('umberla!id. Colonel uin^low went froiu iieausejour to Graud I're. The earthworks cv{ th« t'urt still remain. 66 EVANGELINE. and on the landward side of the hill may be traced the trenches thrown up by the Knf^lish iu their advance. Port Koyal lay on the site of our present Auiiapolid. It was estalili.shed in ItjUt as tlic Frencli capital uf Acadie. In ITl.'i it wax made over to England by the Treaty of L'trecht, its name lieiiig changed to Annapolis Koyal. Here the centre of Knglish authority remained until I'.'JO, when Halifax bccaiiii- tlic capital. Louii>l)iirg and Heau.si'jour had caused the English a great deal of trouMe ami loss, and niucli Kngli.sh blood had been shed in tTie defence of Port Hoyal. Hence, as Basil savs, they would not forget. Nor could they forget that the Acadians were l^reiich in origin an-7 : — "And all her thoughts as fair within her eyes, As biittom agates seen tu wave and Hnat In crystal currents of clear morning seas." ,'}■!.'). See note on II. 260-2. ;).'>2. Tliis metaphor is considered distinctly l>ad. .•t.')4. CruKEw is a corruption of the French rnm-rf-ffu, cover fire. It oriuinated in the Middle Ages. I'lie Curfew-bell was tolled at hours varniig. acccjrding to tlie (u.^'tom of the place, from seven to nine o'clock in the evening. It bade all honest folk lo'-k their doors, |)Ut oat their licbts. and go to l>ed. " The primary puriM)se of the Curfew appears to li;i\c been the prevention of conHagrations arising from domestic tires left iinexlin;;uished at night." ;)7I. Tliits: — The .nimile is obvious. 381. bee (Juucsis xvi. and xxi. IT. 385-6. A famons and beantiful met.kphor. .387-8. Colonel Winslow had summoned "both old mnn and yonng men, as well .is all the lads of ten years of ape," to attend in the Grand I'ri' iburcli at three o'clock on the afternoon of this day. 3'.t6-8. This description of the Acailians wa.s drawn from the Abbe fiuillaume Fran<,-ois Raynal, a French writer (see Introduction). His too highly coloured picture of Acadian life has Iteeu the authority for more than one succeeding author. 408, (lA VKST . . . vv.visTCoATs : — A figure of speech called " Zeugma," w :ere by the omission of one word another is joined to words with which it h.is properly no connection. For other examples, see II. .IB and 0><3. 41.3. Two popular old French songs. "Tons les Bourgeois de Cliar- tie* was written by Ducauroi, .Maitre de Chapelle to Henri IV. . . . Le ' :iril|..n i|e Dunkeniue was a popular song to a tune played on the Dun- kirk ibi-nes." fKvaugeline. ed. H F.. Scudder.) Longfellow had seSD these airs in a F'rench-Canadian publication in 1846. 415. OnoinatopoMa of a somewhat subtle character. The object is to cive a more vivid picture of the dance bv the involved lettering of th» Word*. Cf. Tennyson, The Princess, Prologue, 1. 20 : — " Lal)orious orient ivory sphere in sphere." 68 EVANGELINE. 430. CoMMAWDER : — Colonel Winslow. Set'u^!.,„rto;r. rforir '""''"*'^ ^■"•^- ^'"••'•'' ^''•"''>'''' •«=»"» -PO'ch. 4.14. Makk : — I)i!<[)ogition. „»''"*^;v. '^'"'" ''."""".^''" ■^"'"'■^e 'alrul Dereniher. »'uiir 443. Smno : _ lUri- used (iK'Tiifivelv for " blow " or " stroke " So r. II. I ."»*!!*''"' i.~'^''"' '■"'""' ""■ '■^"'f''»' «l'i'>' coiitaine.1 the altar. kIU I '■ " ■ '"'"',T "■'■^ "r'Ki"ally euclo.sed bv lattice-work or bars. Latin mnrelii, bars of Iattice-w»rk. the*lu;i,r'"T '"■ ~rJ'""„"*"''"^ f""'' K''*" •'>■ "» '■'"«'' ''«f"'e it .trikes tlie hour. 1 ocsin literally = au alarm-bell. 474. A lar^e crucifix Wa.s probal)lv placed over the altar, oec S. Luke x.\iii, 34. Ave Maria are the ojjcuing words of a Latin praver. ^ce 2 Kiin;s 11. 1 1. ' ■ Amubosiai. : — cy. Tennyson, The Princess, Prologue, 1. 68 : — " The broad ambrosial ai.sles of lofty lime." And IV. 6 : — " Dropt through the ambrosial gloom. " 507. See Exodus xxxiv. 29-35. 47f>. 484. 486. 498. 524. Longfellow, in this section, take.s a libertv with history which though of cour« perfectly legitimate, mu.'*t not be'overlooked ' K„r the Bake of dramatic unity, the poet makes th.> whole affair occur late in l)ctober and the embarkation to be cmideted in two davs, — the fifth and Bixth after the meeting in the churdi. Pol m.l'u"'*' /*"'"' 'T«^'"' ^"<' as folb.ws: The English ship.s, with Co onel W luslow and h.s troops, arrived in rlie Hjusin of Miuas l*fore the end of August. The people wen- a.led in the church on Frkl September :,th. ( n Wedne.^day following ( I oth >. about 240 men wereXi triLu ed among the vessel.s then in harbour aiM a gnar.l set over each ve**el. 1 he general embarkation .lid not take plac- until October 8th and no ship left before that .lay. Tlie work wen' o-, at intervals cimldeted. " ""^ ""' '*" '''" '^" "^ '"■«■"''«' '^'^' <*" ^^^' 527. The NiicunotRivri iumi.ets were probably the settlements on the rivers Canard and Habitant, and the village of Mi'-jes '""^''*^"" °" Tu*'l ''^«f'"''n';''C;itholic Mission.', first went to New France -n 161. lous les Bourgeois de Chartres. ° " fw'i?°;,o ''"''T* "i" ' ^''"", V"^ key-note to the poem which sings of love that hopes and endures and is patient." "» i"«c 568-73. Winslow di.l his best to accomplish his w^rk humanely but wr?°/,"'v-''''-\'"r '■''''*'^ '""^^ ^ "'«= I'"« mentions l7ihei letition to the King the Acadian, say: ■• Parents were separated from ■iSi^^^Sj-tA li J lin ia: NOTES. 69 ( lilMren. and basband* from wives, lome of whom hare not to thia dajr mot ai^ain." :i''J. The oyp»ik« were a strange watKlering tribe which «ppearet. The tlat> in th<' r>a.«in of Minaa extend iu places half a mile from flii' ihore when the tide is out .■j'.tT. See Alls xxviil. t;oj. A usu;il furiii of lilrssing. t'li;) Kruni tlie direttioii ..f Grand Pre. i.|-<. IC')AiisTLAi> : — Literally, an anchorage where there ia no ahel- tcf i harbour. tijl Gi,KK.i>!>: — (ilciwing cinders. An archaic word, used by Chaucer. A. .'^ '/ "/, a ijlowini; coal. (ioMriior l,:i«Ten(e In ( 'nl.diel Windlow : "You ninst proceed by the inoHt vii;orous niea-^ures pos.-siblo ... in deprivinj; tbo^o who shall escai)« of ;dl iiie:iiis of ^ll^ller or .-np|Mirt, by buruint; tbcir bou^fes and by destroy- 11];; evervthing that may afford them the means of subsistence iu the I'i'Untry.' '..'iT." The " ])assinii-bell " was rung at the moment of death, th» •■book" was the service-book. t'/'. 8cott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, vi. 400 : — "And e.ich St. Clair was buried there With candle, with l«>ok, and with knell; But the sea. lives rung and the wild waves aung i ht dirge of lovely Uosabelle ! " TAIIT THE SECOND. fii'iS. Hoi sriiot.i) r.oDs, the T>.tre.s and Pen.ite9 of Roman mythology, were siip|(Oseil to preside over |irivate houses. In its modern iidaptation the jdinise meaus ' famdy trc;isure.s, — all thosie things which endear the honic." I'lO'.!. Without . . . stoky : — The statement is too sweeping ; there art' several historical orcurrences similar to, if not worse than, the ex- jmUion of the Acidians. 'T.'t. No special provision was made for their reception in the Tarioua Colonies. 07t'i. This fine metaphor is hardly an exaggeration. Every year, it ha.s been estimated, the Mississippi carries in suspension down to tfie Gulf enough Solid matter to make a prism one mile .square and 263 feet high. 677. "Bouea of the mastodon or mammoth have been foand acattered 70 EVANGELINE. all over the I'liitH StatM an>l Panada, hot tlie giratf.t nnml«r haw heen coll.Mt...i m ^ . th,. Ntatr.- -f Ol.i,,. .\|.^^i«,i,,pi. .\I„«,.„ri, iui,| Aliil.ama.- .0.) I hn ( (II iiKiim-i.Kwiiom formed iin iiit(T.-,iiii},' (hi»-i whii h caiiie iiitu .•xi.-tru,-.- rarlv II. (■aiia.li..ii hinton. Frmrh l,v oriKJii, tliov a.l..|.tr,l til.- custom^ iiii.l, t.) a j,'r.at .■xt.-nt. liw l,iwl. ,^,„.,;. of ilio Imiia,,, ui,|, wli„m lh,-y a-.H i:,t.M Wuy liiihte.l. trapiK-.l, traded in fiirn, aii.l ..ii oniiMoli ai led as soliliors or ;;iii.|i'!< 7i>r. Vov At.Ki ii: — A riNcr l...aiiii:iii ; otill a picturoiKiue ti'ure on tlic M I.awrriii !• ami its kinilrcii >ti.aiii.'». III.- l.-«laii(l. i.f l.<'iii>iaMa arc -iiar.liMl |,y extensive enil.anknu'nt!. .,r ICM'CM. frciiii the ciirriiai liiM.iit of tin. .\lJM»i,,i|,|,i. Tl.t. St. CaihiTine was a Clirlsiiaii iiiaidcii \\U>< was niartvr.'.l no: » i, Sli.' hail v.pwi.l i,..M.r to iiiarrv. II. n. c th.' id. I Knn.li saM'i.i; • i,, |,r,i,i St ( alli.Tiii.' s tresses " was a|.|.li. <1 to those devoted to a sin-ie life Ti''.*. ( 1. 1 i;i;o. •"' :.I2, Siiwii.s: Shreds, frairni.ids. A. S. »r,„re, see Milton, I'aradise Lost, I. 370. II. I "i'n T''"" "KAiTiK.i. I{iv.:i, ^*asth.. Ohio. so,-alle.n.v the Iro,,,„,is. la Salledisrov.r.Ml it :,l,o,u lll.iy. and th.. naine«,-,.s traiW.rred t,, il,e earh.st iiia|is. , ,,„ „lt an> «■""! atlas of the Southern State., for the coijrse traMT>ed l,v tie- A.adian ..sil,s. r.Vi ••lirtne.n III. M of .laiinarv and the I, "it h of Mav in,:, about f...(> Aradians arrived .>t \,.w Orleans Louisiana had been .-.'umI I,v hran.e to Sjian, in i:,,.. I.iu did not roalh pa.ss under Spanish -■oii- trol until l.t,;.. | |„. .-Mstenee of a Fren, I. population attraei.-d the waiidenni; Aeadians and thev were sent l.v the aiuhorities to f,,rni s.-t t.eaients m Allakap.is an I t (peh.iisas Thev afterwards forni.d s,..,u. inen.s on l,o,h si,l,.s of the .\lis-,.,ippi. , ;, n.-nee -ho na.ne of the A.,id.an ( oast will, h a jiortion of the hanks of the iner still hears" e.VI'if ' '■] ^'"'';'"'- ' .' 'I <•'""•*'>. ""»• '^ -i-iKle t .W.I. was at t a t, , e a ;,tnsli of l.u^-e dimensions. It was I.",., mil.!; Ion . hv al.nu o O broad. ai..l eonta.n. I an area of :,...K. s.piaro miles. L.„if;frMo»'s a.l- ;; -.in iT'Tm"" ""■'"' !•""■'""'• •'""•^'' i"the'"intr..du.tion pub. ISh.) Ihe foMowin^r ,.^ir;u-t from this vohinie will be of interest ss lowing, the route the exiles had to take in ord.T t,. rea.h < . ,e ,„ .as ,:, ""V':"'"^ •■' ""■ At..haf,.lava to ( )pelou.s.a.s is .-,« mil." in; ireet ■ '<• . ■ .1 he present . iriiiifoiis r,.,tebv w.-it,.r down the Mississi, , i „ , '" •■""-.•-. =>'.d up ,1... Vt.l.af:,' iva and Tourtableau to .md. us!,: from one point to tl iher upwar.,, of -..(H) miles " p< i"nsas. is '■>^-.". This ' .auiifiil passairo is an ex ll.-nt example of the i.oct's .le.seriptivP pow..r I, p„ss,.ss,.s mi,,|i bn-adtli and grandeur ' ..)>. I "II (Ks: _\„rr,,w river ehanii.ds. « iMfi.i.v.i : — KipplJMir. o: Hurn.s. Halloween : — " Am.TMi; the bonnie windimr banks, U'heie D.H.n riiis. wimplin' clear." 761. The China-tree here mentioned w.as probably the " pride of India " a cultivated shade-tree not uulike our northern elm ' 7.58. NOTES, 71 'J'*- .T,'"^,^'*""'-'' <""*" fxten.li north of naton Ronee ,.,b I la. Hhvou of l'|aM,,,,emi„e .« T2 luil... H„utli of lUt.m Rooge on .1.. .V..UlK.ru Sutes.to tlu- ,„an.l,v orfnl.oots an.l overtluwi,.^ "f Ik " ai.. river, A ^jlanoe at a lar^r- ma.. ..f the -li,tri.-t will ,how that tl... nh^'S;r: W. ';,»'!J"'-"'^ -''^- ^y Lo"«Ml-> tran.lation of " IliitiP hail, mill water nomhro-hucl. ami -now Athwart the ifi,. hroiw air |Mnire.i down amain." 772. narby .i>eak... .,f the " dea.l MilenrP, tho awful l„n,.IinosH aihI .lr...r.v a.,KTt of th... re«,ou." At the .a.no ti.ne he u„..., it- ^real natunil T-J. Thf MiM(i«A is a species of gciisitiM' iilaiit :^'J. See 1. Hi'T ai„l f„ll.,Hi„ir. ' W ■• .. . iIk- |,P.|,riety of thi- and .-In.ilar term, (Muh a.s ••.„rri- d,.r«.^ arehes, a.sle, ,. Knrest .eeiuTv of,e„ ha. an ar.hitectural 7"; ''"'"' •"'••"""•» J'-urnoy by nijjht an,l .si....,, .Inrin;; the ,lav, owing the lr.,p,.-al heat (I 8IH). Gabriel an,l hil, hariv .,„nra,les ,.;us« them while they slunilMr m tho heat of the noon (1 H-'T lull | ' t. l,a\\ren<')>. Ml. The MA..v„i,n i,s "a very lofty an.l maKnifi,-. i,t rverirroe,, tree c..n.sp,..uons at a Kreat .listanee. f..un.l in the N.utheru IniLMl S,ate.s.-' It- bi..s.s.,iiis are sonietinies a f.H.t in .liaiiiet.-r. ,„*!'!!i ^^',V"'T* "IU...WH were »o named frim the .listriet in Lo.iisi- ana « nere thev grew. " Hovering on wing beneath the ope of Hell." The words "cope," "cape," an.l "cap," all ha.l originallv the same ineumnv', i)robably " coverini;." *,.««. 821. See (;enesi» xxviii. ]•>. «JG- St. Maiu: — "I'robablv an error for St. Marv. . . . The Teehe ... H.)W8 southward through both parishes." (K\angeliue, ed. M. T. yuimi.) St. M.\rti.n is n..iv called St Martinsville. ft I T'"" ^""'' '"■'*■■■" sxpf'* 'o fi'id Gabriel, Basil, ami inaiiv of in.i.sp who hn.l tM»on his parishioners in bvgone davs. 8, .1-82. I,.,ngfellow trie.l the experiment of rewriting these lines in rnv nie.l iambic [wntameter. — the " heroic couplet." 'Hie result was much inferior to the hexameter form : — " Fp.'" a spray that overhung the stream, The m.icling-bird. awaking fr»jm his dream, Toure.! .such .leliri.ms music from his throat That all the air seemed listening to his note. m % kV, ^^•: -3^ ;*'g^.'.'' ^'-^feii rSsA, ■;.j^::yir--m; MICROCOPY RESOLUTION TEST CHART ANSI ard ISO TEST CHART No ? 1.0 I.I 1.25 IL 11118 2.5 I- IIM 2,2 !: 1^ 1: li. 2.0 I- 1.8 1.4 1.6 ^ /APPLIED IM/1GE Inc '♦eos us* <«6 - 5ad9 - Fa, '- evant;i:line. I'l.-iintivo at first tlip soup hf-atj, .nnil slow; It l.ri.'athf'l (if sailiK-ii*. .-lU'l i.f ji.-iin an'l w.*; ■riicii, 1,'fitlicriiic; all lii!< nctcs. at. r. -ail lio lluiig 'I'lii' iiiiiltitinliiunK niii»ic fri)iii hi- toii),'Uf, A-i, aftir >li•:-. II..' 1!4.( inNTK- w.T.' ;,rir.ti-.-H- aipl wr,rshii.[.cT« <.f thp po,l |{a-hiw, uh.,, in (in.-k i,i, th..l,,;:y, i.r.-,.!,-! ..^,.rth,• ^i„r an.l its fruit-.. Ihcv «Mrk.M th.'Mi-.ivrM uit..a.-tai.>.il frm/v, ai;.! iiHliiL-c^i in all man- IKT i.f i\r. >s, .'•'-», _ Thr ■^rii.IcMt will rfcall ih.' •• prriiri.-i r,f fair Dpfh.u-a-." 1. 7.-,0 Ti^^ ■''"■' 1 "^ l"""'"f"l ■■»"'l '"^'■l.v J.irtur.' i- cniitaiiM',! Ill ti,,-«r- liii..i J h.- «l.ylc Hin-,.,-.luii: |.:i.-.sa.:,'o — ^'u."l as it is — has nut m.. ■•''ii. ViiK-rii.i; crrespon,!,.! to ..iir Clirivtina,-. It was the creat rcliirioii- t,..tnal of the Kriihls. an.l, ina.-..,l, of all the trih.-s of Northern hiiropc 111, til ( 'liri-lianitv was fiilh c-tal.li-hed. '.'-" •'Ai.ni'.K is "the ran-0 or stock sa.l. lie .still in use 111 the We-tern I nit,.,l States an.l .M.xico. It is 11m. h more el.ihorate tliaii an onlm.irv sa.hlle." The srii:i:i e- are ma-le uf woo,l in-tea.l of metal, aiei have a ,t,''"anl or hoo.i to protect the feet in rhiini; throii.'h the bn-h. ^ '.<] :. Doini.KT, " A closetittintr 'mter ho.lv f;arnieiit with sleeves and sonietiines with short skirts, an.l I.elte.l at the wai-t, that taiiic into ii.se at.oiit the .lel ,,f tlie tifteenth centiirv, and wa.s worn hy men, iisuallv with ho>e, till the iiii.Mle of the seveiiteenih centnrv." ,,'■'''-'. •^"^'►-'' »;i-- •■» small I.oiii-i,iii;i f.wii of .Spanish ..ri£cin on the iu>\ l>ner. 1 )arh\ savs in his ho,,k th.it a consi.i.-rahle trade wx- carrie.l on with the Spanish provinces t.v the r,.„te of Natchitoches. Merchan- disc was cxchanired for wool and iiuiles, y.Vt I he (i/AiiK Mot NTMNS he I.etween the Missouri and Arkans.r^ riveri, "(ialiriel and his pursuers wo„ld naliirallv follow the conr.se of tho lied liiver from Aila.ves to the hase.,f the 1 l/arkMoiintains iu the Indian lerntory and then proceed norihw.si to the prairies." '.'57, riie dew retlectin^; the red ra\s of the moruine sun 'J60. See 1. 4ilS. 9<">1, ( ii VMM s, in early Greek mythulo^n•, was the home of the Gods It was a mountain in Tliessaly. fcLU=,-^ . "'^-: .^V'?-- ?=,*■,■*■':'> >■ v*« -.r^ -^ ,- :?-^, Ift NOTES. * * 961-2. Cy Tcnnvson, The Lotus-Katers, viii. : — " to Vive ,iiiil lit' reclined On :he liills like Go.is t..t;ttlitr, rarelt's,-. of mankind." 9t")S. (iossip* : — Iio<>n cniTHiaiiiniis. I il.jilctc in tlii." sense. 970. Cl iifVANT — K'lriinr. '.iT-. Si I'liKv iiAkKNK-: 1, jx.'. Inii.i. ( 'Kl.ni.i.s : — liroa'llv Bpeakinir. thr 'lesc.ii'lants of white pcoplft liofii in tin- >oiit|i..rii Statrs. Mi-xico, and tin- \V..«t Iiicln.'t. In I.i>in.-iana, i.ri_-iri:illv .a native .lixi.iiilr.l from Fri'neh aniest4irs; liter, a |nrscpn !••■■ l,,'i_'iri:: to liir Fretii li -["■.ikirii; native p. ■pnlalioli of ihi' w hitf rare. (< 'en- liir-. l)irTionar\ ) < in t!ie snKji-' t i;i.n> rallv it will lie interesting; t' ]aint_\ and pa«sion of the whole p.vs- sa^'e, to 1. I((."i1. In.tj. l-'or :i >imilar idea ft'. Itevelation v. s; "(i.|..ur-. ulii. Ii an- the prav.-rs of the saints." Iii.'t 1 'I'hi' CvKiiii -I vN- »s. One of their vows enjidnid iilino-t 'ler- pini:il -ilenc»'. — the monks ini:;lit talk to^'cthir I'ldv onee a week. The ii:iTh'. 1 onu-s from tlie Latinized form of C'hartriii.-<'. luu. Sic Haniil V |ii.",.j, 'I he \\ iiiei'iMiiovii.i. is a small iiortiirnal hird, Common in tlio Kii-tirn SiatfS, Its nairic is derived from a morr or less e.\a<.t iniilation id '.'• > r\ . |oi..', SlIAiiOWY . — Note the force of this epithet. li"ii-4. 'J. S. Luke xv ll-.iL'. and S. Mattlnw xxv. 1-1.3. Si.i.iT . . . COMING. See 11. *<,U-4.'3. 107'* The MorvTAiNS are the Rocky Mountain;". lii-^. TiiK <>i;ei.iin was formerly named the San R(«]np, and is now rnnimoiily called the Cohiinljia. Wai.i.awav is [Mjssihly an error for Walla Walla, a small trihiitary of the < in.-ion liixi-4. See any map of the State of U'yoinine. 111*,'). FiiNTAisK 'jt K-HiHT : — Litcnilly, ' hoilinj; sprinj; " A .^m.all stream in ('olonnlo. SiKitiiA* are mountain diains of jacrired initline (Spanish, siVrni, a saw). The nam • is cnnunon in tl;" State- of the s,,Mth and West. liiyi. A.miiki'IIas : — A sptcifw of plants havin;; 1""K' dense clusters of Mile \ioli.t tli.-wers. IIi'j4. An impres. niacic of Morgan" !.■ Fav. In tho .lont of tiic I nit« Tarknian m.-ntioi,, ihc ■■ dose M.uk cap. the c).,>(. Mack rolx-, of tho dcsui fallKT." It Ha.s early in tlio ."i.vciitcoiitli ccntiirv that the .Jcsiiit.« in.^titiitoc •n to a nnrapc on tho cttonta it was - IlthwOKt d States "thi' inirai,'o is vorv roininon of lakes which strotch hof,,ro tlio tirod traveller, and the ijeception is so -.Teat tliat ])arties have soinetiinos l.oikoned to other tra\ellers. wlio scernetj to l* wadinj: klipo- doep. to como over to thcni where .liv land was." Head Ixinirft'llow's lieantifiil poem. Fata Morgana 1 1 i;)-L'Ks-nom frecjiiontly married Inilian women. Ht'o. Tin; Hi.ai k I!c.iii < iiii.k of tiik ".Mission : — 'Ihe Jesuit priost. lit ... tilted theso nii.ssi,,ns w hich were t,, •• hud difrnitv to their or.ler and d.> honour to hninanily." 'Ihev sproail thn.utjh the whole of tho .Now World; their solitary tiirnres were to he soon in tho nio>t di'solato forests and anioiigthe most danireroiis siirri>nndini;s, and their work is encirclod with a halo of self sacrilif (• that ni.ikos it forever niomoraMe. Ilxi. XKsrtns — Kvoninir service. In the Homan Catholic church there are seven periods of daily nrayer, viz • nialins, prime, torco. soxt, lionos, vespers, and comjdiiie. These corro.sjM.nd to tho honrs of four,' si.\. and nine o'chnk a.m., and twcdvo, throe, six, and nine o'clcK:k i-.m. 11H2. Si'81 mas: — A whisper, iiuirmiir. or riistliuR. Usit. M(niu;n-ioN(,LK:— tronih, the lannuairo of H;isil and Evanpe- and v(r> grateful to the ears of the lonely French jiriest. l-'o:. ( )n<.ii.:t(,iKiia. The lardy sound of "the line helps to indicate the tediiiiis la])so of time. 121'J-4. Cf'. Hiawatha, xiii. 210-88. KM'.i. The < omi-a-showku is found tlirou(ihont the south and wet of tho Fiiited States. It is said to j.resi'ut the edges of its lower leaves due ni-rth and south. 1 Jl 7-iO. The early editions have, in place of these lines, the following, which are neither so heautifiil nor so true : — " I.e." In Grecian myth the asphodel was sacred to "the dead and its lino ^^^^7J7^ -=v- ',- . ■'- ri' NOTES. 75 paie Moasoms were wud to corer the meadows of Elysinm. Cf. Tennvsou, The LotavEaten : — "... (ithpr.n in Klviiaii vall.'vs tiwoll. Resting wearv linil* at last on tx-dit of asphodel." NBrEWTHE : — A clr»u»;hi wtiioh cuisoil fiirj;ctfulncs» of pain and j;rief. 12.''.'. W'oLU: — A down, plain, ur ^l;iti..n of tht; .Moravian " ("in.id.M- hiitten." Till' Moravian rrli^ion* lomtnniotv ori^'inatcd al)out ITiJ. 1 h.v l.i-Ljan mi.>i.Kionary work in thf \\\iM liidHKiu 173:;, aiid their faith souij i'jirca _125.'J. William IVnii, the foundor of riiiladclphia, lived from 1644 to ITI8 Ilo wa.* a (^uaktr and a |diilant!iro|.i,Ht. and «;i,s niori- th.m unir im- prisoned for " lonHcience' .sake " ( »n tljo death ••{ hi:< father, .Vdiniral .•>ir \\ illiarn I'enn, he receiied an e..i renn^vhania. lie hinis(df selerted tin' name " Svlvania" on a( eonnt of the \:i. they hiM 1(K),()00 a( re.s of Ian. I iu the neighbt)urhood of the city. Again, »'e are told that 12,000 German* arrived in 1749. 12'J8. A terrible plague of yell.iw fever visited I'hiladelphia in 179,1. lietween August Ist ami November 9th 4,041 of the inhabitaaU died, while 17,000 tied the city. "^m??"- EVANGELINE. 1299. " Among the rountrv people lar^e qnantitie* of wild pigeons in the spring art- reijardni an certain indiiatious of an unhealthy summer. Whether or no thi.i pr"Ki"ftiiation has over been verifleil before, I can- not tell. Unt it i.f vers certain that dnriin; the last spring the number • if those birils brought to our markets were immense. Never, j>erhaps, were there so many l»-fnre." (A Short Ac.ount of the Malignant Fever latelv prevalent in rhila-lelnhia, by Matthew farv ) The "last spring" »a.-< the ^priiii; of i:'j.'i, in whicli ye'ar the Ujok wa,< |)ublishe(l. l.'l()I-4. 'i'lio siiiiiio i.i |)artieiilarly applicable a." reell8 was pur- chased in Kmiland for ■^4,.5iM). 1.T2.H. This is the oldest church in Philadeliihi.a. It was opened in 1700. Wi.'.aco is within the city, ..u the banks of the Delaware. l.'15.">. See K.xodus \ii. \:\(,\. It is worth while to observe here the easy and beautiful transition from one jiicture to another. l.'!75. A striking simile of Death. 1.38.3. Cf. note to 1. VM\^. 13.'