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Album The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Terrestrial Paradise by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Terrestrial Paradise Annotated

Longing already to search in and round
&nbsp The heavenly forest, dense and living-green,
&nbsp Which tempered to the eyes the newborn day,
Withouten more delay I left the bank,
&nbsp Crossing the level country slowly, slowly,
&nbsp Over the soil, that everywhere breathed fragrance.
A gently-breathing air, that no mutation
&nbsp Had in itself, smote me upon the forehead,
&nbsp No heavier blow, than of a pleasant breeze,
Whereat the tremulous branches readily
&nbsp Did all of them bow downward towards that side
&nbsp Where its first shadow casts the Holy Mountain;
Yet not from their upright direction bent
&nbsp So that the little birds upon their tops
&nbsp Should cease the practice of their tuneful art;
But with full-throated joy, the hours of prime
&nbsp Singing received they in the midst of foliage
&nbsp That made monotonous burden to their rhymes,
Even as from branch to branch it gathering swells,
&nbsp Through the pine forests on the shore of Chiassi,
&nbsp When Aeolus unlooses the Sirocco.
Already my slow steps had led me on
&nbsp Into the ancient wood so far, that I
&nbsp Could see no more the place where I had entered.
And lo! my further course cut off a river,
&nbsp Which, tow'rds the left hand, with its little waves,
&nbsp Bent down the grass, that on its margin sprang.
All waters that on earth most limpid are,
&nbsp Would seem to have within themselves some mixture,
&nbsp Compared with that, which nothing doth conceal,
Although it moves on with a brown, brown current,
&nbsp Under the shade perpetual, that never
&nbsp Ray of the sun lets in, nor of the moon.

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