Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

⏱ 8 minEpic & myth

This is the forest primeval. On the day of her betrothal, the beautiful Acadian Evangeline is torn from her love Gabriel when the English scatter her people into exile -- and she wanders America for a lifetime in search of him, finding him at last only as a dying old man. Longfellow's tender poem of faithful love.

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