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Arnold's March to Canada	A
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I	-
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The trumpet with a giant sound	B
Its harsh war summons wildly sings	C
And bursting forth like mountain springs	C
Poured from the hillside camping ground	B
Each swift battalion shouting flings	C
Its force in line where you may see	D
The men broad shouldered heavily	D
Sway to the swing of the march their heads	E
Dark like the stones in river beds	E
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Lightly the autumn breezes	F
Play with the shining dust cloud	G
Rising to the sunset rays	H
From feet of the moving column	I
Soft as you listen comes	J
The echo of iterant drums	J
Brought by the breezes light	K
From the files that follow the road	L
A moment their guns have glowed	L
Sun smitten then out of sight	K
They suddenly sink	M
Like men who touch a new grave's brink	M
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II	-
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So it was the march began	N
The march of Morgan's riflemen	N
Who like iron held the van	N
In unhappy Arnold's plan	N
To win Wolfe's daring fame again	N
With them by her husband's side	O
Jemima Warner nobly free	D
Moved more fair than when a bride	O
One year since she strove to hide	O
The blush it was a joy to see	D
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III	-
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O distant terrible forests of Maine	N
With huge trees numberless as the rain	N
That falls on your lonely lakes	P
It falls and sings through the years but wakes	P
No answering echo of joy or pain	N
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Your tangled wilderness was tracked	Q
With struggle and sorrow and vengeful act	Q
'Gainst Puritan pagan and priest	R
Where wolf and panther and serpent ceased	R
Man added the horrors your dark maze lacked	Q
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The land was scarred with deeds not good	S
Like the fretting of worms on withered wood	S
What if its venomous spell	T
Breathed into Arnold a prompting of Hell	T
With slow empoisoning force indued	S
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IV	-
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As through that dreary realm he went	S
Followed a shape of dark portent	S
Pard like of furtive eye with brain	N
To treason narrowing Aaron Burr	U
Moved loyal seeming in the train	N
Led by the arch conspirator	U
And craven Enos closed the rear	V
Whose honor's flame died out in fear	V
Not sooner does the dry bough burn	N
And into fruitless ashes turn	N
Than he with whispered false command	S
Drew back the hundreds in his hand	S
Fled like a shade and all forsook	W
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Wherever Arnold bent his look	W
Danger and doubt around him hung	X
And pale Disaster shrouded flung	X
Black omens in his track as though	Y
The fingers of a future woe	Y
Already clutched his life to wring	Z
Some expiation for the thing	Z
That he was yet to do A chill	A2
Struck helpless many a steadfast will	A2
Within the ranks the very air	B2
Rang with a thunder toned despair	B2
The hills seemed wandering to and fro	Y
Like lost guides blinded by the snow	Y
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V	-
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Yet faithful still 'mid woe and doubt	S
One woman's loyal heart whose pain	N
Filled it with pure celestial light	S
Shone starry constant like the North	C2
Or that still radiance beaming forth	C2
From sacred lights in some lone fane	N
But he whose ring Jemima wore	D2
By want and weariness all unstrung	Z
Though strong and honest of heart and young	Z
Shrank at the blast that pierced so frore	D2
Like a huge invisible bird of prey	D2
Furious launched from Labrador	D2
And the granite cliffs of Saguenay	D2
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Along the bleak Dead River's banks	E2
They forced amain their frozen way	D2
But ever from the thinning ranks	E2
Shapes of ice would reel and fall	F2
Human shapes whose dying prayer	D2
Floated a mute white mist in air	D2
The crowding snow their pall	G2
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Spectre like Famine drew near	D2
Her doom word hummed in his ear	D2
Ah weak were woman's hands to reach	H2
And save him from the hellish charms	I2
And wizard motion of those arms	I2
Yet only noble womanhood	S
The wife her dauntless part could teach	H2
She shared with him the last dry food	S
And thronged with hopefulness her speech	H2
As when hard by her home the flood	S
Of rushing Conestoga fills	J2
Its depth afresh from springtide rills	J2
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All all in vain	N
For far behind the invading rout	S
These two were left alone	N
And in the waste their wildest shout	S
Seemed but a smothered groan	N
Like sheeted wanderers from the grave	-
They moved and yet seemed not to stir	D2
As icy gorge and sere leaf'd grove	-
Of withered oak and shrouded fir	D2
Were passed and onward still they strove	-
While the loud wind's artillery clave	-
The air and furious sleety rain	N
Swung like a sword above the plain	N
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VI	-
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They crossed the hills they came to where	D2
Through an arid gloom the river Chaudiere	D2
Fled like a Maenad with outstreaming hair	D2
And there the soldier sank and died	S
Death dumb he fell yet ere life sped	S
Child like on her knee he laid his head	S
She strove to pray but all words fled	S
Save those their love had sanctified	S
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And then her voice rose waveringly	G2
To the notes of a mother's lullaby	-
But her song was only Ah must thou die	-
And to her his eyes death still replied	S
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VII	-
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Dead leaves and stricken boughs	J2
She heaped o'er the fallen form	K2
Wolf nor hawk nor lawless storm	K2
Him from his rest should rouse	J2
But first with solemn vows	J2
Took rifle pouch and horn	N
And the belt that he had worn	N
Then onward pressing fast	S
Through the forest rude and vast	S
Hunger wasted fever parch'd	S
Many bitter days she marched	S
With bleeding feet that spurned the flinty pain	N
One thought always throbbing through her brain	N
They shall never say 'He was afraid '	-
They shall never cry 'The coward stayed '	-
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VIII	-
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Now the wilderness is passed	S
Now the first hut reached at last	S
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Ho dwellers by the frontier trail	G2
Come forth and greet the bride of war	D2
From cabin and rough settlement	S
They come to speed her on her way	D2
Maidens whose ruddy cheeks grow pale	G2
With pity never felt before	D2
Children that cluster at the door	D2
Mothers whose toil worn hands are lent	S
To help or bid her longer stay	D2
But through them all she passes on	N
Strangely martial fair and wan	N
Nor waits to listen to their cheers	J2
That sound so faintly in her ears	J2
For now all scenes around her shift	S
Like those before a racer's eyes	J2
When foremost sped and madly swift	S
Quick stretching toward the goal he flies	J2
Yet feels his strength wane with his breath	L2
And purpose fail 'mid fears of death	L2
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Till like the flashing of a lamp	M2
Starts forth the sight of Arnold's camp	M2
The bivouac flame and sinuous gleam	N2
Of steel where crouched the army waits	J2
Ere long beyond the midnight stream	N2
To storm Quebec's ice mounded gates	J2
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IX	J2
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Then to the leader she was brought	S
And spoke her simply loyal thought	S
If 'mid the shame of after days	J2
The man who wronged his country's trust	S
Yet now in worth outweighed all praise	J2
Remembered what this woman wrought	S
It should have bowed him to the dust	S
Humbly my soldier husband tried	S
To do his part He served and died	S
But honor did not die His name	O2
And honor bringing both I came	O2
And this his rifle here to show	Y
While far away the tired heart sleeps	J2
To day his faith with you he keeps	J2
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Proudly the war bride ending so	Y
Sank breathless in the dumb white snow	Y