Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . SHIRE 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 House/ where he re-sided, he wrote much of his choicest verse,including The I
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . SHIRE 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 House/ where he re-sided, he wrote much of his choicest verse,including The Indian at the Burial Placeof His Fathers. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and hisbride, Miss Frances Appleton, visited Pitts-field w^hile on their bridal tour, and passedseveral successive summers there. Theymade their stay in the house on East street,now the home of the Plunkett family, which w^as then the countryhome of Mrs. Longfellows father, Hon. Nathan Appleton, of the ^Doet found that which gave him inspiration for one of hismost pathetic poetic musings— The Old Clock on the Stairs —. Henry W. Longfellow. By day its voice is low and light;But in the silent dead of as a passing footsteps echoes along the vacant hall,Along the ceiling, along the floor,And seems to say at each chamber-door,- Forever—never! Never—forever! There, also he wrote Evangeline, The Belfry at Bruges, and sev-eral minor poems. 58 BERKSHIRE COUNTY Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, essayist, novelist and philosopher,passed what he termed seven hlessed summers on the old Lenoxroad, about two miles from the park at Pittsfield. In his novel, Elsie Venner, it is believed he pictured vari-ous bits of neighborhood scenerv^ andmore than one well known local charac-ter. Here he also wrote several of hismost widely known and generouslypraised poems, among them Dedicationof the Pittsfield Cemetery. and ThePloughman. The latter he read at theanniversary of the Berkshire Agricultur
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