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allowed, Longfellow to be the best of
the American poets, as his style of
writing is SO conformable to our
feelings, raising and depressing
them with its varying moods; for in
stance, in Evangeline," we feel with
the beautiful heroine in all her joys
and troubles as though they were
our own.
First, her JOY at her approaching
marriage, which is suddenly turned
into the deepest woe when the whole
colony is turned out of house and
home, and Gabriel is separated from
her. neither of them ever to see each
others faces again, until she meets
him, in the character of a nurse, only
to minister to his last few wants be-
fore his soul takes its fight to its
long home.
We follow her wanderings in
search of her lover with the greatest
interest, and as her hopes of discov-
ering him sink lower and lower, we
entertain the greatest pity for her.
And when we read of her declin-
ing beauty and increasing years,
and feel what her life-work has been
spent in, it is not hard to realize her
unhappiness.
Each succeeding year stole something
away from her beauty,
Leaving behind it, broader and deeper,
the gloom and the shadow.
Then there appeared and spread faint
,f hor
AS in the eastern sky the first faint
streaks of the morning.
In all her wanderings, however.
she had comforter, to whom she
turned in her distress, and whose
hope was so strong that he ever be-
lieved in the possibility of finding
Gabriel.
L refer to Father Felician, the old
parish priest, who had known her
from child.
"The Courtship of Miles Stan
DISH" story Of the old colony
days, resembles it somewhat; both
maidens are beautiful, both beloved,
though in the former poem no direct
rival is mentioned, although G Many
youth, as he knelt in the church,
turned his eyes upon her as the saint
| of his deepest DEVOTION" shows how
attractive Evangeline was to the
youth of the village.
In "Miles Standish John Alden
is the preferred lover, and becomes
in time the successful one, although
the grisly old captain himself hoped
to win the Puritan maiden, Priscilla,
and sends Alden, his scribe, to inter
cede for him.
Alden, however, so full of his own
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house, his heart burning with love
at Priscilla's retort, !" Why don't you
ask for yourself, John 2" yet not
daring to do SO for fear of dishonor-
ing himself in the eyes of his cap
tain.
1.-The Building of the Ship" which
I admire more than either of the
preceding. was based by Longfellow
upon Schiller's Building of the
Bell"
It is full of thought and beauty,
the comparison between the "grey
old sea" and the vessel, bedecked
with gay bunting. about to be
launched, with a grey-haired old man
taking to himself young and beau
tiful bride is very striking. --e
Whittier writes in a. completely
different style, to m5sr'mind, not half
as pleasing as nongfellow.
rs, ssSnow bound,o which de-
/ scribes the life of New England
boy, is written in very practical
manner.
Some parts are very beautiful, fol-
instance
"Yet love will dream, and faith will
trust,
Since he who knows our need is just
That somehow, somewhere, meet we
must"
And so on.
1t is sad to think of him when be
speaks of himself as the only one left
from the large family circle of his
boyhood, each of whom he describes
in his poem.
w. G. Bryant's g Sella is beauti
fully written, and resembles I'm
dine"
! SeIla was a girl with a soul pos
sessed with longing to live among
the nymphs Undine was a being
without soul.
1t is quite a relief to find at the
end of the poem that, owing to hel
slippers (which, possessing a magic
influence over her, were the sole
cause of her wanderings) being
thrown into the stream by her
brothers, she is compelled to live
again on land, as she was wont to,
the rest of her life being spent in in
venting objects of help and assist.
ance for her fellow-creatures.
"Cadyou CASTLE" by Walter Scott,
is written in his own peculiar style,
displaying martial spirit common
to the feudal times.
1t describes Cadyou Castle, and a
hunting party that issued from its
gates at morn.
After the hunt, while sitting at a
sylvan repast, certain Bothwel-
haugh who had been injured by the
regent, Murray, and whose war cry
has been vengeance, bursts in upon
| them
He is flying from justice, having
got his revenge at last by the muir
der, with his own hand, of the
regent.
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