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Poems Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Part the Second I - III

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Part the Second I - III

I.

Many a weary year had passed since the burning of Grand-Pre, When on the falling tide the freighted vessels departed, Bearing a nation, with all its household gods, into exile, Exile without an end, and without an example in story. Far asunder, on separate coasts, the Acadians landed; Scattered were they, like flakes of snow, when the wind from the northeast Strikes aslant through the fogs that darken the Banks of Newfoundland. Friendless, homeless, hopeless they wandered from city to city, From the cold lakes of the North to sultry Southern savannas, ...

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