Hawthorne

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow * Track #141 On The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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How beautiful it was, that one bright day
&nbsp In the long week of rain!
Though all its splendor could not chase away
&nbsp The omnipresent pain.

The lovely town was white with apple-blooms,
&nbsp And the great elms o'erhead
Dark shadows wove on their aerial looms
&nbsp Shot through with golden thread.

Across the meadows, by the gray old manse,
&nbsp The historic river flowed:
I was as one who wanders in a trance,
&nbsp Unconscious of his road.

The faces of familiar friends seemed strange;
&nbsp Their voices I could hear,
And yet the words they uttered seemed to change
&nbsp Their meaning to my ear.

For the one face I looked for was not there,
&nbsp The one low voice was mute;
Only an unseen presence filled the air,
&nbsp And baffled my pursuit.

Now I look back, and meadow, manse, and stream
&nbsp Dimly my thought defines;
I only see—a dream within a dream—
&nbsp The hill-top hearsed with pines.

I only hear above his place of rest
&nbsp Their tender undertone,
The infinite longings of a troubled breast,
&nbsp The voice so like his own.

There in seclusion and remote from men
&nbsp The wizard hand lies cold,
Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen,
&nbsp And left the tale half told.

Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power,
&nbsp And the lost clew regain?
The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower
&nbsp Unfinished must remain!

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