 | John Mack Faragher - 2005 - 620 pages
...Norman caps and their kirtles of homespun, And by the evening fire repeat Evangeline's story, While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced, neighboring...accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. EVANGELINE was an extraordinary publishing success. The poem went through six printings in the first... | |
 | Gloria A. Tveten - 2006 - 276 pages
...The words of Longfellow come immediately to mind, although written for a completely different region: "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines...in garments green, indistinct in the twilight...." Olympic National Park contains the best remaining examples of undisturbed temperate rain forest in... | |
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THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.... 
