Phil-O-Rum's Canoe, And Madeleine Vercheres: Two Poems
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Better mak' leetle prayer, for on Dead Riviere, some very smart man get drown ; But if you be locky an' watch youse'f, mebbe reever won't seem so wide, An* firse t'ing you know you '11 ronne ashore, safe on de 'noder side. MADELEINE VERCHERES. I'VE told you many a tale, my child, of the old heroic days, Of Indian wars and massacre, of villages ablaze With savage torch, from Ville Marie to the Mission of Trois Rivieres; But never have I told you yet of Madeleine Vercheres. Summer had come with i...ts blossoms, and gaily the robin sang, And deep in the forest arches, the axe of the woodman rang; Again in the waving meadows, the sun-browned farmers met And out on the green St. Lawrence, the fisher- man spread his net. And so through the pleasant season, till the days of October came When children wrought with their parents, and even the old and lame *' Like timers they watch their prey. Madeleine Vercheres 7 With tottering frames and footsteps, their feeble labors lent At the gathering of the harvest le bon Dieu himself had sent.
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