英语词汇the forest primeval的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the forest primeval
词源	the forest primeval. A phrase from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem Evangeline (1847), once taught in almost every American high school: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks . . . Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic.
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