| Jared Sparks - United States - 1845 - 472 pages
...living, and some for the dead, — Well might that traveller start to see The tall dark forms, that take their way From the birch canoe, on the river shore, And the forest paths, to that chapel door; t And marvel to mark the naked knees And the dusky foreheads bending there, — And, stretching his... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1837 - 594 pages
...traveller start to see The tall dark forms, that take their way From the birch canoe, on the river-shore, And the forest paths, to that chapel door ; And marvel...pale and tall, In his coarse white vesture, Father Ralle! " — p. 31. A minute criticism of this little book would bring to light many modest beauties,... | |
| Caroline Howard Gilman - 1884 - 254 pages
...for the living and some for the dead, Well might that traveller start to see The tall dark forms that take their way From the birch canoe, on the river...there — And, stretching his long, thin arms over those In blessing and in prayer, Like a shrouded spectre, pale and tall, In his coarse, white vesture,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...take their way From the bireh canoe, on the river-shore, And the forest-paths, to that chapel-door ; And marvel to mark the naked knees And the dusky foreheads bending there. And, stretehing his long, thin arms over these, In blessing and in prayer, Like a shrouded spectre, pale... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...take their way From the birch canoe, on the river-shore, And the forest-paths, to that chapel-door ; And marvel to mark the naked knees And the dusky foreheads...pale and tall, In his coarse, white vesture, Father RALLE !* Two forms are now in that chapel dim, The Jesuit, silent and sad and pale, Anxiously heeding... | |
| 1847 - 800 pages
...living and some for the dead, — Well might that traveller start to see The tall dark forms, that take their way From the birch canoe, on the river...there,— And, stretching his long, thin arms over thcae In blessing and in prayer. Like a shrouded spectre pale and tall, In his coarse white vesture.... | |
| Jared Sparks - United States - 1845 - 484 pages
...living, and some for the dead, — Well might that traveller start to see The tall dark forms, that take their way From the birch canoe, on the river...dusky foreheads bending there, — And, stretching hia long, thin arms over these In blessing and in prayer, Like a shrouded spectre, pale and tall, In... | |
| William Ingraham Kip - Indians of North America - 1846 - 372 pages
...living, and some for the dead, — Well might the traveller start to see The tall dark forms, that take their way From the birch canoe, on the river...mark the naked knees And the dusky foreheads bending these, — And, stretching his long thin arms over these In blessing and in prayer, Like a shrouded... | |
| Jared Sparks - United States - 1848 - 504 pages
...living, and some for the dead, — Well might that traveller start to see The tall dark forms, that take their way From the birch canoe, on the river...pale and tall, In his coarse white vesture, Father Ralle ! " Whittier's Mogg Megont. common share of patient, loving perseverance. The afternoon he employed... | |
| John Wesley Hanson - Abenaki Indians - 1849 - 394 pages
...for the dead, — Well might the traveller start to see The tall dark forms that lake their way Prom the birch canoe on the river shore, And the forest...pale and tall, In his coarse white vesture, Father Ralle." — MOGQ MEGONE. The good Father declares that alewives are so plenty, (in 1723,) that if a... | |
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