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O river winding to the sea	B
We call the old time back to thee	B
From forest paths and water ways	C
The century woven veil we raise	C
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The voices of to day are dumb	D
Unheard its sounds that go and come	D
We listen through long lapsing years	E
To footsteps of the pioneers	E
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Gone steepled town and cultured plain	F
The wilderness returns again	G
The drear untrodden solitude	H
The gloom and mystery of the wood	I
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Once more the bear and panther prowl	J
The wolf repeats his hungry howl	J
And peering through his leafy screen	K
The Indian's copper face is seen	K
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We see their rude built huts beside	L
Grave men and women anxious eyed	L
And wistful youth remembering still	M
Dear homes in England's Haverhill	M
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We summon forth to mortal view	N
Dark Passaquo and Saggahew	O
Wild chiefs who owned the mighty sway	P
Of wizard Passaconaway	P
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Weird memories of the border town	Q
By old tradition handed down	Q
In chance and change before us pass	R
Like pictures in a magic glass	R
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The terrors of the midnight raid	S
The death concealing ambuscade	S
The winter march through deserts wild	S
Of captive mother wife and child	S
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Ah bleeding hands alone subdued	S
And tamed the savage habitude	S
Of forests hiding beasts of prey	P
And human shapes as fierce as they	P
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Slow from the plough the woods withdrew	N
Slowly each year the corn lands grew	N
Nor fire nor frost nor foe could kill	M
The Saxon energy of will	M
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And never in the hamlet's bound	S
Was lack of sturdy manhood found	S
And never failed the kindred good	S
Of brave and helpful womanhood	S
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That hamlet now a city is	T
Its log built huts are palaces	U
The wood path of the settler's cow	V
Is Traffic's crowded highway now	V
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And far and wide it stretches still	M
Along its southward sloping hill	M
And overlooks on either hand	S
A rich and many watered land	S
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And gladdening all the landscape fair	W
As Pison was to Eden's pair	W
Our river to its valley brings	X
The blessing of its mountain springs	X
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And Nature holds with narrowing space	Y
From mart and crowd her old time grace	Y
And guards with fondly jealous arms	Z
The wild growths of outlying farms	Z
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Her sunsets on Kenoza fall	M
Her autumn leaves by Saltonstall	M
No lavished gold can richer make	A2
Her opulence of hill and lake	A2
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Wise was the choice which led out sires	B2
To kindle here their household fires	C2
And share the large content of all	M
Whose lines in pleasant places fall	M
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More dear as years on years advance	D2
We prize the old inheritance	E2
And feel as far and wide we roam	F2
That all we seek we leave at home	F2
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Our palms are pines our oranges	U
Are apples on our orchard trees	G2
Our thrushes are our nightingales	G2
Our larks the blackbirds of our vales	G2
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No incense which the Orient burns	G2
Is sweeter than our hillside ferns	G2
What tropic splendor can outvie	N
Our autumn woods our sunset sky	H2
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If where the slow years came and went	S
And left not affluence but content	S
Now flashes in our dazzled eyes	G2
The electric light of enterprise	G2
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And if the old idyllic ease	G2
Seems lost in keen activities	G2
And crowded workshops now replace	G2
The hearth's and farm field's rustic grace	G2
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No dull mechanic round of toil	M
Life's morning charm can quite despoil	M
And youth and beauty hand in hand	S
Will always find enchanted land	S
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No task is ill where hand and brain	F
And skill and strength have equal gain	F
And each shall each in honor hold	S
And simple manhood outweigh gold	S
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Earth shall be near to Heaven when all	M
That severs man from man shall fall	M
For here or there salvation's plan	I2
Alone is love of God and man	I2
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O dwellers by the Merrimac	J2
The heirs of centuries at your back	J2
Still reaping where you have not sown	K2
A broader field is now your own	K2
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Hold fast your Puritan heritage	L2
But let the free thought of the age	M2
Its light and hope and sweetness add	S
To the stern faith the fathers had	S
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Adrift on Time's returnless tide	S
As waves that follow waves we glide	S
God grant we leave upon the shore	N2
Some waif of good it lacked before	N2
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Some seed or flower or plant of worth	O2
Some added beauty to the earth	O2
Some larger hope some thought to make	A2
The sad world happier for its sake	A2
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As tenants of uncertain stay	P
So may we live our little day	P
That only grateful hearts shall fill	M
The homes we leave in Haverhill	M
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The singer of a farewell rhyme	P2
Upon whose outmost verge of time	P2
The shades of night are falling down	Q
I pray God bless the good old town	Q

John Greenleaf Whittier

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