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Like a fragment of torn sea kale	A
Or a wraith of mist in the gale	A
There comes a mysterious tale	A
Out of the stormy past	B
How a fleet with a living freight	C
Once sailed through the rocky gate	C
Of this river so desolate	D
This chasm so black and vast	B
	-
'Twas Cartier the sailor bold	E
Whose credulous lips had told	E
How glittering gems and gold	E
Were found in that lonely land	F
How out of the priceless hoard	G
Within their rough bosoms stored	G
These towering mountains poured	G
Their treasures upon the strand	F
	-
Allured by the greed of gain	H
Sieur Roberval turned again	I
And sailing across the main	H
Passed up the St Lawrence tide	J
He sailed by the frowning shape	K
Of Jacques Cartier's Devil's Cape	K
Till the Saguenay stood agape	K
With hills upon either side	J
	-
Around him the sunbeams fell	L
On the gentle St Lawrence swell	L
As though by some mystic spell	L
The water was turned to gold	E
But as he pursued they fled	M
Till his vessels at last were led	M
Where cold and sullen and dead	M
The Saguenay River rolled	E
	-
Chill blew the wind in his face	N
As still on his treasure chase	N
He entered that gloomy place	N
Whose mountains in stony pride	J
Still soulless merciless sheer	O
Their adamant sides uprear	O
Naked and brown and drear	O
High over the murky tide	J
	-
No longer the sun shone bright	P
On the sails that full and white	P
Like sea gulls winging their flight	P
Dipped into the silent wave	Q
But shadows fell thick around	R
Till feeling and sight and sound	R
In their awful gloom were drowned	R
And sank in a depthless grave	Q
	-
Far over the topmost height	P
Great eagles had wheeled in flight	P
But wrapped in the gloom of night	P
They ceased to circle and soar	O
Grim silence reigned over all	S
Save that from a rocky wall	S
A murmuring waterfall	S
Leapt down to the river shore	O
	-
O merciless walls of stone	T
What happened that night is known	T
By you and by you alone	T
Though the eagles unceasing scream	U
How once through that midnight air	O
For an instant a trumpet's blare	O
And the voices of men in prayer	O
Arose from the murky stream	U

Arthur Weir

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