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    Mountain Pictures, and other poems Part 2 From Volume II of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
    Mountain Pictures, and other poems Part 2 From Volume II of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
    Mountain Pictures, and other poems Part 2 From Volume II of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
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    Mountain Pictures, and other poems Part 2 From Volume II of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

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      Mountain Pictures, and other poems Part 2 From Volume II of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier - John Greenleaf Whittier

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      Title: Mountain Pictures and Others, From Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., The Works of Whittier

      Author: John Greenleaf Whittier

      Release Date: Dec, 2005 [EBook #9569] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on October 2, 2003]

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      POEMS OF NATURE

      POEMS SUBJECTIVE AND REMINISCENT

      RELIGIOUS POEMS

      BY JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

      CONTENTS:

      MOUNTAIN PICTURES I. FRANCONIA FROM THE PEMIGEWASSET II. MONADNOCK FROM WACHUSET THE VANISHERS THE PAGEANT THE PRESSED GENTIAN A MYSTERY A SEA DREAM HAZEL BLOSSOMS SUNSET ON THE BEARCAMP THE SEEKING OF THE WATERFALL THE TRAILING ARBUTUS ST. MARTINS SUMMER STORM ON LAKE ASQUAM A SUMMER PILGRIMAGE SWEET FERN THE WOOD GIANT A DAY

      MOUNTAIN PICTURES.

      I. FRANCONIA FROM THE PEMIGEWASSET

      Once more, O Mountains of the North, unveil

      Your brows, and lay your cloudy mantles by

      And once more, ere the eyes that seek ye fail,

      Uplift against the blue walls of the sky

      Your mighty shapes, and let the sunshine weave

      Its golden net-work in your belting woods,

      Smile down in rainbows from your falling floods,

      And on your kingly brows at morn and eve

      Set crowns of fire! So shall my soul receive

      Haply the secret of your calm and strength,

      Your unforgotten beauty interfuse

      My common life, your glorious shapes and hues

      And sun-dropped splendors at my bidding come,

      Loom vast through dreams, and stretch in billowy length

      From the sea-level of

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