The Avesta, Volume 5, Number 2, Winter, 1926 Page: 22
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THE AVESTA
"Poured slantwise down the long defile,
Wave, word and spire beneath them smile"-
This is a pretty glimpse of a landscape. The poet-painter here shows
us a peaceful vale where nestles the village church.
"Centuries ago, that harbor bar,
Stretching its length of form afar,
And Salisbury's beach of shining sand,
And yonder island's wave-smoothed strand,
Saw the adventurer's tiny sail,
Flit, stooping from the eastern gale;
And o'er these woods and waters broke
The cheer from Britain's heart of oak,
As brightly on the voyager's eye
Wearing of forest, sea and sky,
Breaking the dull continuous wood,
The Merrimac rolled down his flood"-
At every turn he sees a fresh picture. It gives one a peculiar sense
of delight to have thus marked the exact spot, or even the near vicinity
of the landing of his ancestors. In imagination he looks back reverently
to that far-distant time when those adventurous explorers crossed un-
known seas to find a vast, mysterious land into whose wildest depths they
hesitated not to penetrate with their "hearts of oak."
But now the picture changes. The sun has already set, leaving be-
hind it one of those brilliant seas of chrysolite and opal which often flood
New England skies, if we are to believe the poets. Here, again, we see
how Whittier had in a marked degree the faculty of picking out just those
features in a landscape which give individuality,-
"But look! the yellow light no more
Streams down on wave and verdant shore;
And clearly on the calm air swells
The twilight voice of distant bells."
You almost hear the soothing chime of those bells. No other spot
in the world is so dear to him. It is a land of hill-ranges stretching in
every direction in sweeping, wavelike masses that go on and on into mys-
terious purple distances. Within seeing distance of his home were visible
great mountain ranges, peaceful villages, coastland, marshland and
beach.-22
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North Texas State Teachers College. The Avesta, Volume 5, Number 2, Winter, 1926, periodical, Winter 1926; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2105597/m1/24/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.