Bangor Public Library Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl Books and Publications Special Collections 1880 Picturesque Maine Moses Foster Sweetser Follow this and additional works at: https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs Recommended Citation Sweetser, Moses Foster, "Picturesque Maine" (1880). Books and Publications. 107. https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/107 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections at Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl. It has been accepted for inclusion in Books and Publications by an authorized administrator of Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. PICTURESQUE MAINE. W.!TH DESCIUPT.!ONS BY M. F. SWEETSER. PORTLAND: CH IS H 0 L M BR 0 TH ER S. r,, ;;;- !<. ;i .,,_~ ~ " to ~ "' 'ti n "~· c 0 ~ 0 .., "- "' ~ ':-< "'Cl ::,, _::; ~ n ;;, -~ 1fl :,. _o ~ "" ~ 0 ~ r / 9: ~ FJ ti;, I; ~ " "ff tltou art worn and hard beset Witlt sorrows, that tltou wouldst forget, ff tl1ozt wouldst read a lesson tltat will keep Thy heart from fainting, and thy soul from sleep, Go to tlze woods and lulls/ No tears Dim tlte sweet look tlwt Nature wears." LONGFELLOW. "What is most stn'king in tlze Maine wilderness is the continuousness of tl1e forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than )'Ott had imagined. Except tl1e few burnt-lands, tl1e narrow interval; on tlte rivers, tlte bare tops of tlte high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted. _ft is even more grim and wild tlzan you had anticipated, - a damp and intricate wilderness, in the spring everywltere wet and miry.