...SO SORRY. I KNOW IT'S ALL SCRAMBLED AND ROUGH . . . I'LL TRY AGAIN. " THIS IS THE FOREST PRIMEVAL. THE MURMURING PINES AND THE HEMLOCKS, BEARDED WITH...AND IN GARMENTS GREEN, INDISTINCT IN THE TWILIGHT— "WAIT, " SAYS THE TRANCER. "PLEASE. WAIT. I AM HAVING A VERY HARD TIME. FORGIVE ME; I THANK YOU FOR...

...the river separating Cambridge from Boston. FROM Evangeline [Prologue] This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest...

...wonderfully by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the opening lines of Evcttgeline: "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, bearded with...and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight." This image of vast, unbroken tracts of dense, gloomy forest is more fanciful than accurate, however....

...hauntingly beautiful. Longfellow struck the bardic note immediately—"This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight"—one of the most famous openings in all of American poetry. He was not, of course, describing...

...lines that would become some of the most familiar in all American poetry: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest...

...and the hemlocks Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like the Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Ever since his earliest days as a tutor he had been pondering on the best way of rendering into English...

...hauntingly beautiful. Longfellow struck the bardic note immediately — "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with...and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight" — one of the most famous openings in all of American poetry. He was not, of course, describing the...

...immediately to mind, although written for a completely different region: "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with...in garments green, indistinct in the twilight...." Olympic National Park contains the best remaining examples of undisturbed temperate rain forest in...

...the famous narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline." THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest...

...recently published Evangeline. He was fascinated by its hexameter metre: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks Bearded with...garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like the Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on...