The Brandywine (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Brandywine

In boyhood's hour I rambled on thy banks And bathed or angled in thy peaceful pools, My love has been for thee; and later days Have but enhanced the joy thy presence gave. Youth's golden years and seasons of delight, Its happy fantasies and dreamings high, Were brighter yet for thy companionship; Thy rocks and shadowy groves, thy daisied fields, Deep pastoral solitudes and placid vales.

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Excerpt from The Brandywine

The BrandyWine

"I lie as lies yon placid Brandywine,
Holding the hills and heavens in my heart
For contemplation." - Sidney Lanier

Dear Stream of Beauty, - famed from olden time,
Renowned in annals of our early days;
Stream by whose banks the ancient Indians dwelt,
And on thy waters plied their swift canoes,
And in thy woodlands tracked the fleeting deer; -
Wawassan called by those red foresters,
Or Susqueco, as other legends say:
Stream on whose shores our fathers fought and fell,
Immortally remembered with the name
Of Washington, - and Wayne, our county's pride, -
And glorious Lafayette, - and many more,
Whose memories romantic shall not die,
Forever in our grateful hearts enshrined:

Dear Stream of Beauty, - love of poets all;
Dear to our Taylor in his ardent youth;
The joyous theme of Read and Everhart;
And sung by him from out the southern land,
Lanier, the lover of all loveliness:

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.