Shielding   the  house  from  storms,  on  the  north,

were  the  barns  and  the  farm-yard.
There  stood  the  broad-wheeled  wains  and  the  an-
tique ploughs  and  the  harrows;
There  were  the  folds  for  the  sheep;  and  there,  in

his  feathered  seraglio,
95  Strutted  the  lordly  turkey,  and  crowed  the  cock,

with  the  selfsame
Voice  that  in  ages  of  old  had  startled  the  penitent

Peter.
Bursting  with  hay  were  the  barns,  themselves  a

village.     In  each  one
Far  o'er  the  gable  projected  a  roof  of  thatch;  and

a  staircase,
Under  the  sheltering  eaves,  led  up  to  the  odorous

corn-loft.
93.  The  accent  is  on  the  first  syllable  of  antique,  where  it  re-
mains in  the  form  antic,  which  once  had  the  same  general  mean-

ng-
99.  Odorous.    The  accent  here,  as  well  as  in  line  408,  is  upon


20  LONGFELLOW.
loo  There  too  the  dove-cot  stood,  with  its  meek  and
innocent  inmates
Murmuring  ever  of  love;  while  above  in  the  vari-
ant breezes
Numberless  noisy  weathercocks  rattled  and  sang
of  mutation.
Thus,  at  peace  with  God  and  the  world,  the
farmer  of  Grand-Pre

Lived  on  his   sunny  farm,  and   Evangeline  gov-
erned his  household.
