Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . England; and the romantic novelist, R. James. At Arrowhead, near Pittsfield, abode for a time Herman Mel-ville, traveler, author and lecturer, and who gave name to the placethrough the incident of his there picking- up a flint arrow-point, and herewrote his famous Piazza Tales. In the summer, too, Canute-like,sitting here, one is often reminded of thesea. For not only do long- ground-swellsroll the slanting grain, and httle waveletsof the grass ripple over upon the lowpiazza, as thei
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . England; and the romantic novelist, R. James. At Arrowhead, near Pittsfield, abode for a time Herman Mel-ville, traveler, author and lecturer, and who gave name to the placethrough the incident of his there picking- up a flint arrow-point, and herewrote his famous Piazza Tales. In the summer, too, Canute-like,sitting here, one is often reminded of thesea. For not only do long- ground-swellsroll the slanting grain, and httle waveletsof the grass ripple over upon the lowpiazza, as their beach, and the blown downof dandelions is wafted like the spray, purple of the mountains is just the])urple of the billows, and a still Augustnoon broods upon the deep meadows, asa calm upon the Line: but the vastnessand the loneso-meness are so oceanic, andthe silence and the sameness, too, that thefirst peep of a strange house, rising be-vond the trees, is for all the world like spying, on the Barbai*y coast, anunknown sail.—From The P{a::::a, one of The Piazza Tales, byHeniian \\illiam Cullen Bryant. The Berkshire hills and vales \\ere ever a favorite resort of \ilham Cullen Bryant, in his young manhood, resided in Great Bar-rington, where he was town clerk for several years and practiced he frequently turned aside to the fields and streams to indulge hispoetic fancies, as lie de])icts in his poem on Green River : That fairy music I never hear, Nor gaze on those waters so green and clear. And mark them winding away from sight, BERKSHIRE COUNTY 57 Darkened with shade or flashing with Hght,While oer them the vine to its thicket cHngs,And the zephyr stoops to freshen his wings,But I wnsh that fate had left me freeTo wander these quiet haunts wath thee,Till the eating cares of earth should depart,And the peace of the scene pass into my heart;And T envy thy stream as it glides alongThrough its beautiful banks in a trance of song. In The Bryant
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