 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Folklore - 1855 - 346 pages
...its waist a shining girdle, Round its bows a gleaming necklace, On its breast two stars resplendent. Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest ; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch-tree, All... | |
 | 1855 - 714 pages
...resin of the fir-tree, Smeared therewith each eeam and fissure, Made each crevice safe from water. Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river. In the bosom of the forest ; And the forest's life Wiig in it, All its mystery and it« magic. All the lightness of the birch-tree,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1855 - 344 pages
...its waist a shining girdle, Round its bows a gleaming necklace, On its breast two stars resplendent. Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest ; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch-tree, All... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 684 pages
...resin of the fir-tree, Smeared therewith each seam and fissure, Made each crevice safe from water. Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom oftho forest ; And tho forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 682 pages
...fir-trco, Smeared therewith each seam and fissure, Made each crevice safe from water. Thus the Birch Canoo was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest ; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of tho birch-tree, All... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 346 pages
...its waist a shining girdle , Bound its bows a gleaming necklace, On its breast two stars resplendent. Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic , All the lightness of the birch-tree, All... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...girdle, Sound its bows a gleaming necklace, On its breast two stars resplendent. Thus the Birch-Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest ; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch-tree, All... | |
 | Christianity - 1856 - 538 pages
...pebbles, Answered wailing, answered weeping, " Take my balm, O Hiawatha!" * * * # Thus the Birch-Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch-tree, All... | |
 | 1856 - 522 pages
...the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch•s supple sinews ; And it floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily. From the corpse of Mondamin, the friend of man, with whom he wrestles, as of yore did Jacob... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1857 - 242 pages
...its waist a shining girdle, Bound its bows a gleaming necklace, On its breast two stars resplendent. Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest ; And the forest's life was in it, 11 All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch tree,... | |
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Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest ; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews;... 
