Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 / 2008-07-02 00:00:00

EBOOK, AMONG THE HILLS, ETC. ***


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NARRATIVE AND LEGENDARY
POEMS
BY
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

CONTENTS:
AMONG THE HILLS
PRELUDE
AMONG THE HILLS
THE DOLE OF JARL THORKELL
THE TWO RABBINS
NOREMBEGA
MIRIAM
MAUD MULLER
MARY GARVIN
THE RANGER
NAUHAUGHT, THE DEACON
THE SISTERS
MARGUERITE
THE ROBIN


AMONG THE HILLS
This poem, when originally published, was dedicated to Annie Fields,
wife of the distinguished publisher, James T. Fields, of Boston, in
grateful acknowledgment of the strength and inspiration I have found in
her friendship and sympathy. The poem in its first form was entitled The
Wife: an Idyl of Bearcamp Water, and appeared in The Atlantic Monthly
for January, 1868. When I published the volume Among the Hills, in
December of the same year, I expanded the Prelude and filled out also
the outlines of the story.

PRELUDE.
ALONG the roadside, like the flowers of gold
That tawny Incas for their gardens wrought,
Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod,
And the red pennons of the cardinal-flowers
Hang motionless upon their upright staves.
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