"This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight."
(From 'Evangeline', a poem by Longfellow. Centered around the forced removal of the French Acadian people from Nova Scotia to Louisiana.)
Opening stanzas of a poem I learned in the 8th grade. Little did I know that six yrs. later, I would be traveling through Louisiana on a military bus to school in Mississippi.
From the bus window, moonlight cast shadows on the trees and there and then I saw the mossy beards drooping from the hemlocks.
A shadowy morning along Monson Turnpike, G-37, Sept. 8, 2019, 8:25 a.m.
Bearded with moss and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight."
(From 'Evangeline', a poem by Longfellow. Centered around the forced removal of the French Acadian people from Nova Scotia to Louisiana.)
Opening stanzas of a poem I learned in the 8th grade. Little did I know that six yrs. later, I would be traveling through Louisiana on a military bus to school in Mississippi.
From the bus window, moonlight cast shadows on the trees and there and then I saw the mossy beards drooping from the hemlocks.
A shadowy morning along Monson Turnpike, G-37, Sept. 8, 2019, 8:25 a.m.