Impressions in and about Portland, Maine . CASCO BAY Nowhere fairer, sweeter, rarer, o;-olden-locked huit bearer Through his painted woodlands, where hillside oaks and beechesOverlook the long, blue coves and pebbled beaches. And green isles of Casco Bay ; Nowhere day, for delay,With a tenderer look beseeches Let me with my charmed earth stay, On the grain-lands of the main-landsStands the serried corn like train-bands, Plume and pennon rustling gay ;Out at sea the islands birches, golden with maples, crimson-blooded. White sea-foam an
Impressions in and about Portland, Maine . CASCO BAY Nowhere fairer, sweeter, rarer, o;-olden-locked huit bearer Through his painted woodlands, where hillside oaks and beechesOverlook the long, blue coves and pebbled beaches. And green isles of Casco Bay ; Nowhere day, for delay,With a tenderer look beseeches Let me with my charmed earth stay, On the grain-lands of the main-landsStands the serried corn like train-bands, Plume and pennon rustling gay ;Out at sea the islands birches, golden with maples, crimson-blooded. White sea-foam and sand-hills gray. Stretch away, far and dreamy, over-brooded By the hazy autumn day. —John G. Whittier 13. CITY OF MY LOVE The heavens unfold to Cascos Hfted waveTheir richest gems of amethyst and gold, Where, blazoned like some grand old architrave,The broad horizon bounds its realms untold. O sunny bay ! upon thy sheltered breast, Whose deeps unknown are throbbing sails are borne like white-winged buds, to testYon broad Atlantic-tides, from shore to shore. Oerarched with gUn-y from resplendent skies,Bramhall and Munjoy, as twin-sentinels. May overlook our growing enterprise From east to west, and hear our sweet-tonedbells. One sunny slope is fresh with mountain air ; And one lies broad to islands Nature hangs her summer pictures rare Framed round in sunshine, as with burnishedgold. But Deering woods, of which Our Poet sung,Hath cultured lawns, and broad green avenues. Where, summer eves, glad music-echoes rungAnd fountains played and scattered mists likedews. 15 O City of our love ! Like some fair queenWhose kingdom hath a beauty all its own, Blue skies, blu
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