 | Peter Rosen - 1895 - 728 ˹éÒ
...rushing river, Tall and stately in the valley. I a light canoe will build me, That shall float upon the river, Like a yellow leaf in autumn, Like a yellow water lily. Lay aside your cloak, O Birch Tree, Lay aside your white skin wrapper, For the summer time is coming,... | |
 | Edward Thomas Davies Chambers - 1896 - 426 ˹éÒ
...into the water. His motion, or that of the guides, had in the meantime freed the canoe, and once again "It floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in autumn, Like a yellow water-lily," and friend Stocking, who says that he fears no evil in following the directions of his... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1897 - 230 ˹éÒ
...forest; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's...river Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily. To THE TEACHER. — (Before the pupils read this selection from Hiawatha, the poem should... | |
 | Mary Hall Husted - 1897 - 148 ˹éÒ
...forest; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and magic, All the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple...river, Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily." — The quotations are by permission of HougUon, Mifflln eft Co HI-A-WA-THA AND PEARL-FEATHER.... | |
 | George Young - 1897 - 386 ˹éÒ
...— " And the forest life is in it, All its mystery and its magic ! All the lightness of the Birch tree, All the toughness of the Cedar, All the Larch's supple sinews, And it floated down the river, Like a yellow leaf in Autumn ; Like a yellow water-lily. " Yet it is much more practical,... | |
 | Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson - 1898 - 84 ˹éÒ
...Hiawatha." And the forest's life was in it. All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's...a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water lily. —Adapted from LONGFELLOW. JOHN JAMES AUDUBON TO-DAY is the birthday of a man who knew more about... | |
 | James David Edgar - 1898 - 310 ˹éÒ
...— "And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's...a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water lily. " What the camel is to the desert the birchbark canoe is to the Canadian forest and stream. In all... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - 1898 - 560 ˹éÒ
...wrote : — "... the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and magic, All the lightness of the birch tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's...floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in autumn." The French governor and missionaries all saw and admired these birch-bark canoes. Father Charlevoix... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1898 - 220 ˹éÒ
...the forest's life was in it, 100 All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch-tre'e, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews ; And it floated on the river, 105 Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily. 106. "The bark canoe of the Chippeways... | |
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Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews;... 
