Narrative And Legendary Poems: Bay of Seven Islands And Others
The book Narrative And Legendary Poems: Bay of Seven Islands And Others was written by author Whittier John Greenleaf Here you can read free online of Narrative And Legendary Poems: Bay of Seven Islands And Others book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Narrative And Legendary Poems: Bay of Seven Islands And Others a good or bad book?
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The timbers of that mill have fedLong since a farmer's fires;His doorsteps are the stones that groundThe harvest of his sires. Man trespassed here; but Nature lostNo right of her domain;She waited, and she brought the oldWild beauty back again. By day the sunlight through the leavesFalls on its moist, green sod, And wakes the violet bloom of springAnd autumn's golden-rod. Its birches whisper to the wind, The swallow dips her wingsIn the cool spray, and on its banksThe gray song-sparrow sings. B...ut from it, when the dark night falls, The school-girl shrinks with dread;The farmer, home-bound from his fields, Goes by with quickened tread. They dare not pause to hear the grindOf shadowy stone on stone;The plashing of a water-wheelWhere wheel there now is none. Has not a cry of pain been heardAbove the clattering mill?The pawing of an unseen horse, Who waits his mistress still? Yet never to the listener's eyeHas sight confirmed the sound;A wavering birch line marks aloneThe vacant pasture ground.
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