The Poetical Works Of James A. Whitney V1 (1886)

By James Amaziah Whitney

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHERRY VALLEY. Otsego's hills are fair, and he whose way Lies through the vales between, by winding streams; Will see the lithe maize bend, the cattle graze In low green intervales, and in the shade, The wide-branch'd maple gives, will see the flocks Contented lie at noon. And if he wend In that of cherries called will there behold A creek most sinuous of all that flow 'Mid level banks along. And from the meads Will see of sloping fields, that bright and broad Reach upward on the hills where waves the grain With changing tint of verdure as the winds Sweep low with varying stress: and orchards dark With promise of the Fall, and fallows dun New cloven by the plow, and dwellings fair With thrift of tillage born. And if he look Along the roads' gray length will see the spires That mark the village fanes; and everywhere Behold but peace and plenty and the calm Of safety and content. Not thus the scene Broke on the sight of those who long ago From out the Mohawk valley took their way Through gloom of hemlock forests and a stream, Canajoharie called, with fearless feet Far followed to its source, and 'twixt the hills Found the clear springs wherein its waters rose. And then beholding the low curve that lay Inverted 'gainst the sky, of waving boughs, That marked the summits of the forest knew Their highest path was reached and far beyond Another stream ran southward. So they went And found its bending ripples, gleaming clear In rays that shone between the arching boughs Where wide along its banks low level lands Lay sheltered 'mid the hills, while all around Was reach of hoary forests; and the cry Of startled wolves came far upon the winds, The deer sprang through the coverts, and the birds Unfearing sang an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1166599752
• ISBN13: 9781166599751
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"