Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-24
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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 individu-
atty, they all had in common consciousness OF
the reality and worth of the moral qualities in life
and belief in the beauty of righteousness. Seren-
fty, kindness and earnestness were the keynotes
Of their literary sanity.
Longfellow, the man, was admirable type of
the American citizen who believes in church and
home, loves the sane and wholesome and has mang
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 for the decencies him respect and love.
Much of his poetry is as American as he was
himself. Paul Revere's Ride will be acclaimed
by the American schoolboy as long as there is
schoolhouse. 1.-THE Song of Hawatha" will live
longer than the Redman "The Courtship of Miles
Standish" will last while the memory of the Pill
grim Fathers endures
Will this soon be forgotten?
Then too sail on o Ship of State!
Sail on, Q Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years.
Is hanging breathless thy fate!
We know what Master laid thy keel
What workman forged thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast and sail and rope,
What anvi1s rang, what hammers beat
In what forge and what heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Fear each sudden sound and shock
IT'S of the and not the rock;
IT'S but the tapping of the sail,
And not a rent made by the gale!
In spite and tempest's roar,A
In spite of false lights the shore,
Sail on, fear 60 breast the sea!
Our hearts, cur hopes, our prayers, our tears
Our faith triumphant DER fears
Are all VIII thee-are all with thee!
Longfellow's oust is in Westminster Abbey and
now forty-eighs years after his DEATH he is, with
Tennyson, the rlost popular of poets wherever the
English tongue IS spoken.
Regardless of all this, Fort Anne in Annapolis
Royal Nova Scotia, is of the most notable his
toric spots on the North American continent. The
town was founded in 1904 as Port Royal by de
Monts and Champaign. And it was hornets
nest Six times it changed hands between the
French and English from its founding until ITO
when Nicholsons pr.svncias from New England
took final possession and it became Annapolis
Royal. 1t is the entrance into "Evangeline Land"
From it the Acadians were deported in 1855 In
land is the Annapolis valley. little to the north
is Grand Pre- and the Bay of Minas. Most of the
Acadians returned, but not to Grand Pre-. Today,
more than a hundred mies away, in the District
of Clare 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 Acadians left were settled by 10y
aists who fled from New England because of the
Revolution
Dr. Cody may Danish "EvangGline'" from Canadi-
an school books but Nova Scotians of the Evan
geline Country know the poem by heart Every
thing associated with the Acadans is treasured
every landmark mentioned by Lorgfellow is pre-
served. In the center of the old-time village of
Grand Pre- is being established the Acadian Me-
mortal park. And thither throngs cf eager pill
grims go each year.