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" STREAM of my fathers ! sweetly still The sunset rays thy valley fill ; Poured slantwise down the long defile, Wave, wood, and spire beneath them smile. I see the winding Powow fold The green hill in its belt of gold, And following down its wavy line,... "
Poems - Page 75
by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1856 - 384 pages
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Roberts' Semi-monthly Magazine, Volume 1

1841 - 470 pages
...slantwise <MWn the long defile, Wave, wood, and spire beneath them smile. 1 see the winding Powwow Ibid The green hill in its belt of gold, " And following...wavy line, Its sparkling waters blend with thine. • There's not a tree upon thy side, Nor reck, which thy returning tide A* yet hath Ml abrupt and...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 17

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1841 - 564 pages
...which they call Mcrrimoc.' Si EUR DE MONTS: 1C04. STREAM of my fathers ! sweetly still The sunset rnys thy valley fill ; Poured slantwise down the long defile, Wave, wood, and spire beneath them smile. I sec the winding Powow fold The green hill in its belt of gold, And following down its wavy line, Its...
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...hand ! THE MERRIMACK. STHEAM of my fathers ! sweetly still The sunset rays thy valley fill ; 1 V'in ,l slantwise down the long defile, Wave, wood, and spire...upon thy side, Nor rock, which thy returning tide Aa yet hath left abrupt and stark Above thy evening water-mark ; No calm cove with its rocky hem, No...
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Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 4

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1843 - 552 pages
...Sieur de Monts, 1604. Stream of my fathers ! sweetly still The sunset rays thy valley fill ; Pour'd slantwise down the long defile, Wave, wood and spire...wavy line, Its sparkling waters blend with thine. There's not a tree upon thy side, Nor rock, which thy returning tide As yet hath left abrupt and stark...
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Readings in American Poetry

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 280 pages
...MERRIMACK. BY JG WHITTIER. STREAM of my fathers ! sweetly still The sunset rays thy valley fill ; Pour'd slantwise down the long defile, Wave, wood, and spire...wavy line, Its sparkling waters blend with thine. There's not a tree upon .thy side, Nor rock, whicji thy returning tide As yet hath left abrupt ajid...
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The Poet's Gift: Illustrated by One of Her Painters

John Keese - American poetry - 1845 - 338 pages
...trod 1 Who then shall dare murmur " There is no God .'" THE MERRIMACK. BY JOHN G. WHITTIER. STREAM of my fathers ! sweetly still The sunset rays thy...wavy line, Its sparkling waters blend with thine. There's not a tree upon thy side, Nor rock, which thy returning tide As yet hath left abrupt and stark...
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Selections for Reading and Speaking, for the Higher Classes in Common Schools

Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 pages
...however, to be more civil for the future to inoffensive travellers. CHAPTER XLIV. THE MERKIMACK. 1. STREAM of my fathers ! sweetly still The sunset rays thy...down the long defile, Wave, wood, and spire beneath then smile. I see the winding Powow fold The green hill in its belt of gold, And following down its...
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...Eilet. — The Sutquehanas. Stream of my fathers ! sweetly still The sunset rays thy valley fill ; Pour slantwise down the long defile, Wave, wood, and spire beneath them smile. Whittier. — The Merrimasi, I have stood Where Hudson roll'd his lordly flood : Look'd down the Apnllaehian...
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Friendly Sketches in America

William Tallack - Religion - 1861 - 326 pages
...from Amesbury, and has spent most of his life amidst the quiet scenes of the Merrimac valley. " Stream of my fathers! sweetly still The sunset rays thy valley...its wavy line Its sparkling waters blend with thine. * » • * * Centuries ago that harbour bar, Stretching its length of foam afar, And Salisbury's beach...
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The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 360 pages
...a beautiful river, far to the South, which they call Mcrrimack." — SIEOR DE MONTS : 1604.] STKRAM of my fathers ! sweetly still The sunset rays thy...wavy line, Its sparkling waters blend with thine. There's not a tree upon thy side, Nor rock, which thy returning tide As yet hath left abrupt and stark...
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