. The poets' New England. authorities of that city forbade the entranceof the strange procession, and the crowd returned toMarblehead. Throughout the entire proceeding maintained a dignified silence^ and when, onarriving at his own house, he was released from cus-tody, his only remark was: I thank you for my ride,gentlemen, but you will live to regret it. Whittierwas certainly not a conscious sinner against fact inthis instance, for, as he declares, I knew nothing ofthe particulars, and the narrative of the ballad waspure fancy. He expressed satisfaction that had brought out
. The poets' New England. authorities of that city forbade the entranceof the strange procession, and the crowd returned toMarblehead. Throughout the entire proceeding maintained a dignified silence^ and when, onarriving at his own house, he was released from cus-tody, his only remark was: I thank you for my ride,gentlemen, but you will live to regret it. Whittierwas certainly not a conscious sinner against fact inthis instance, for, as he declares, I knew nothing ofthe particulars, and the narrative of the ballad waspure fancy. He expressed satisfaction that had brought out the truth in his book, for hisverse had been founded solely on a fragment ofrhyme which he had heard from one of his early school-mates, who was a native of Marblehead. Other romances of the early days are Mary Gar-vin, an imaginary tale, the scene of which is laidnear the headwaters of the Saco River at Conway,New Hampshire; and The Ranger, a song of theold French War, in which there is a lovely descriptionof Casco Bay:. > Pi oo <! cnw THE POETS NEW ENGLAND 139 Where hillside oaks and beechesOverlook the long, blue reaches,Silver coves and pebbled beaches,And green isles of Casco Bay. On the grain-lands of the mainlands Stands the serried corn like train-bands. Plume and pennon rustling gay; Gut at sea the islands wooded, *Silver birches, golden-hooded. Set with maples, crimson-blooded,White sea-foam and sand-hills far, far away, Dim and dreamy, over-broodedBy the hazy autumn day. Between them, these two poets have brought intothe reahn of poetic art much of the legend and history-pertaining to the early days of New England. Theyhave often handled the material with the artists pre-rogative of changing or interpreting facts to suit theneeds of art, but in so doing they have thrown a ro-mantic glamor over the whole of New a country needs to make it immortal is notmerely the dry facts transcribed from letters and jour-nals, military orders and tow
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