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Title: The children's Longfellow, illustrated
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
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Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s household,Gentle Evangeline lived, his child, and the pride of the village.Stalworth and stately in form was the man of seventy winters ;Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow-flakes ;White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak-leaves.Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen sum-mers.Black were her 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 the harvest heat she bore to the reapers at noontideFlagons of home-brewed ale, ah ! fair in sooth was the maiden.Fair was she when, on Sunday morn, while the bell from its turretSprinkled with holy sounds the air, as the priest with his hyssopSprinkles the congregation, and scatters blessings upon them. 88 Homezvard serenely she walked zvith Gods befiediction upon her.When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music
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EVANGELINE Do\\n the long street she passed, with her chaplet ofbeads and her missal, Wearing her Norman cap, and her kirtle of blue, and the ear-rings, Brought in the olden time from France, and since, asan heirloom. 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, afterconfession, Homeward serenely she walked with Gods benedictionupon her. When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing ofexquisite music. Firmly builded with rafters of oak, the house of the farmerStood on the side of a hill commanding the sea ; and a shadySycamore grew by the door, with a woodbine wreathing around it.Rudely carved was the porch, with seats beneath ; and a footpathLed through an orchard wide, and disappeared in the meadow.Under the sycamore-tree were hives overhung by a penthouse, 89 EVANGELINE Such as the traveller sees in regions remote by the road-side, Built oer a box for the poor

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