THE FOREST SANCTUARY. Ihr Plätze aller meiner stillen Freuden, So ist des Geistes Ruf an mich ergangen, Die Jungfrau von Orleans: Long time against oppression have I fought, Remorse, a Tragedy. 1 The following Poem is intended to describe the mental conflicts, as well as outward sufferings, of a Spaniard, who, flying from the religious persecutions of his own country in the 16th century, takes refuge with his child in a North American forest. The story is supposed to be related by himself amidst the wilderness which has afforded him an asylum. THE FOREST SANCTUARY. I. The voices of my home !-I hear them still ! night- earth Are music parted, and the tones of mirth-Wild, silvery tones, that rang through days more bright! Have died in others,--yet to me they come, Singing of boyhood back-the voices of my home! |