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been forgotten Longfellow. Emerson. Holmes,
Lowell and Hawthorne formed the truly remark
able group that In the first half of the Nineteenth
century laid the foundations of our American lit
erature While each had distinct artistic indiv;du-
aty. they all had In common a consciousness of
the reality and worth of the moral qualities in life
and belief in the beauty of righteousness. Seren-
lty kindness and earnestness were the keynOtes
of their literary sanity.
Longfellow, the man, admirable type of
the American citizen who believes in church and
home. loves the sane and wholesome and has many
OF the qualities that belong to the American Ideal.
Longfellow. the poet was no Browning; his very
simplicity is In large measure the secret of his
popularity. He was no Byron; his scrupulous
regard Tor the decenctes won him respect and love-
Much Of his poetry Is American as he was
himself Paul Revere's Ride" will be deciaimed
by the American schooboy long there is
schoolhouse. "The Song Of Hawatha" will live
longer than the Redman. "The Courtshp of Miles
Standsh" will last while the memory Of the Pill
grim Fathers endures.
VIII this soon be forgottenf
Then. too. sail on. 0 Ship of State!
Sail o Union, strong and greatI
Humanity with all its fears.
With all the aopes OF future years.
. Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
We know what Master laid thy keel
What workman forged thy ribs of steel.
Who made each last and sail and rope,
What anvils rang. wnat hammers beat
In what forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors Of thy hope!
Fear not each sudden sound and shock
'Tis of the wave the rock;
'Tis but the tapping of the sail.
And rent rlade by the gale!
In spite of rock and tempest's roar
In spite of false lights the shore.
Sail on. nor fear to breast the sea!
Our hearts. our hopes are all with thee:
Our hearts. our hopes prayers, tears
Our faith triumphant DER fears
a VIII A wit fheaI
Longfeows Dust Is in Westminster Abbey and
now. forty-eigh, years after his death, he is with
Tennyson. the most popular Of poets wherever the
English tongue Is spoken.
Regardless of all this, Fort Anne in Annanolis
Royal Nova Scotia, Is one of the most notable his
torc spots on the North American continent. The
town founded In 1904 as Port Royal by de
Monts and Champlain. And It was a hornets
nest. Six times 1t changed hands between the
French and English from its founding until 171O
when Nicholson's provincials from New England
took final possession and 1t became Annapolis
Royal. 1t is the entrance into "Evangeline Land"
From it the Acadians deported in 1858. In.
land Is the Annapolis valley. A little to the north
is Grand Pre- and the Bay of Mnas. Most Of the
Acndans returned but not to Grand Pre- Today
more than hundred miles away. in the District
of Glare. lives 10000 of their descendants, who
speak the French of 300 years ago and have many
old-time characteristics. Curiously enough many
of the lands the Acadnns left were settled by 10y
alists who fled from New England because of the
Revolution.
Dr. Cody may Danish "Evangellne" from Canad
an school books. but Nova Scotians of the Evan
geline Country" know the poem by heart Every
thing associated with the Acadians is treasured :
every landmark mentioned by Longfellow ls pre-
served. In the center of the od-tme village of
Grand Pre- Is being established the Acadan Me-
morial park. And thither throngs os eager oil
grims go each year.