Poems . , amid the gloom, by the church Evangeline was silent within ; and in vain at the door and the windowsStood she, and listened and looked, until, overcome by emotion, Gabriel, cried she, aloud, with tremulous voice; but no answerCame from the graves of the dead, nor the gloomier grave of the at length she returned to the tenantless house of her the fire on the hearth, on the board stood the supper un tasted,Empty and drear was each room, and haunted with phantoms of echoed her step on the stair and the floor of her the
Poems . , amid the gloom, by the church Evangeline was silent within ; and in vain at the door and the windowsStood she, and listened and looked, until, overcome by emotion, Gabriel, cried she, aloud, with tremulous voice; but no answerCame from the graves of the dead, nor the gloomier grave of the at length she returned to the tenantless house of her the fire on the hearth, on the board stood the supper un tasted,Empty and drear was each room, and haunted with phantoms of echoed her step on the stair and the floor of her the dead of the night she heard the whispering rain fallLoud on the withered leaves of the sycamore tree by the the lightning flashed ; and the voice of the echoing thunderTold her that God was in heaven, and governed the world he created!Then she remembered the tale she had heard of the justice of heaven ;Soothed was her troubled soul, and she peacefully slumbered till morning. EVANGELINE. oT. V. Four times the sun had risen and set; and now on the fifth dayCheerily called the cock to the sleeping maids of the oer the yellow fields, in silent and mournful procession,Came from the neighbouring hamlets and farms the Acadian women,Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the sea-shore, 38 EVANGELINE. Pausing and looking back to gaze once more on their dwellings,Ere they were shut from sight by the winding road and the at their sides their children ran, and urged on the oxen,While in their little hands they clasped some fragments of playthings. Thus to the Gaspereaus mouth they hurried; and there on thesea-beach,Piled in confusion lay the household goods of the day long between the shore and the ships did the boats ply;All day long the wains came labouring down from the in the afternoon, when the sun was near to his setting,Echoing far oer the fields came the roll of drums from the th
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