Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Middle States: Norman’s Kill (Tawasentha), N. Y. | | Tawasentha | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| | (From The Song of Hiawatha: Introduction) |
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IN the Vale of Tawasentha, | |
| In the green and silent valley, | |
| By the pleasant water-courses, | |
| Dwelt the singer Nawadaha. | |
| Round about the Indian village | 5 |
| Spread the meadows and the corn-fields, | |
| And beyond them stood the forest, | |
| Stood the groves of singing pine-trees, | |
| Green in summer, white in winter, | |
| Ever sighing, ever singing. | 10 |
| And the pleasant water-courses, | |
| You could trace them through the valley, | |
| By the rushing in the spring-time, | |
| By the alders in the summer, | |
| By the white fog in the autumn, | 15 |
| By the black line in the winter; | |
| And beside them dwelt the singer, | |
| In the vale of Tawasentha, | |
| In the green and silent valley. | | | |
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