Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | New England: Casco Bay, Me. | | Casco Bay | | John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| | (From The Ranger)
NOWHERE fairer, sweeter, rarer, | |
| Does the golden-looked fruit-bearer | |
| Through his painted woodlands stray, | |
| Than where hillside oaks and beeches | |
| Overlook the long, blue reaches, | 5 |
| Silver coves and pebbled beaches, | |
| And green isles of Casco Bay; | |
| Nowhere day, for delay, | |
| With a tenderer look beseeches, | |
| “Let me with my charmed earth stay.” | 10 |
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| On the grainlands of the mainlands | |
| Stands the serried corn like train-bands, | |
| Plume and pennon rustling gay; | |
| Out at sea, the islands wooded, | |
| Silver birches, golden-hooded, | 15 |
| Set with maples, crimson-blooded, | |
| White sea-foam and sand-hills gray, | |
| Stretch away, far away. | |
| Dim and dreamy, over-brooded | |
| By the hazy autumn day. | 20 |
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| Gayly chattering to the clattering | |
| Of the brown nuts downward pattering, | |
| Leap the squirrels, red and gray. | |
| On the grass-land, on the fallow, | |
| Drop the apples, red and yellow; | 25 |
| Drop the russet pears and mellow, | |
| Drop the red leaves all the day, | |
| And away, swift away, | |
| Sun and cloud, o’er hill and hollow | |
| Chasing, weave their web of play. | 30 | | | |
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