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FROM the heart of Waumbek Methna from the	A
lake that never fails	B
Falls the Saco in the green lap of Conway's	B
intervales	B
There in wild and virgin freshness its waters	B
foam and flow	C
As when Darby Field first saw them two hundred	D
years ago	C
	-
But vexed in all its seaward course with bridges	B
dams and mills	B
How changed is Saco's stream how lost its freedom	E
of the hills	B
Since travelled Jocelyn factor Vines and stately	F
Champernoon	G
Heard on its banks the gray wolf's howl the trumpet	H
of the loon	G
	-
With smoking axle hot with speed with steeds of	I
fire and steam	J
Wide waked To day leaves Yesterday behind him	K
like a dream	J
Still from the hurrying train of Life fly backward	L
far and fast	M
The milestones of the fathers the landmarks of	I
the past	M
	-
But human hearts remain unchanged the sorrow	C
and the sin	G
The loves and hopes and fears of old are to our	N
own akin	G
	-
And if in tales our fathers told the songs our	N
mothers sung	O
Tradition wears a snowy beard Romance is always	B
young	O
	-
O sharp lined man of traffic on Saco's banks today	P
O mill girl watching late and long the shuttle's	B
restless play	P
Let for the once a listening ear the working hand	Q
beguile	R
And lend my old Provincial tale as suits a tear or	S
smile	R
	-
	-
	-
The evening gun had sounded from gray Fort	T
Mary's walls	B
Through the forest like a wild beast roared and	U
plunged the Saco's' falls	B
	-
And westward on the sea wind that damp and	U
gusty grew	V
Over cedars darkening inland the smokes of Spurwink	O
blew	V
	-
On the hearth of Farmer Garvin blazed the crackling	O
walnut log	O
Right and left sat dame and goodman and between	G
them lay the dog	O
	-
Head on paws and tail slow wagging and beside	W
him on her mat	X
Sitting drowsy in the firelight winked and purred	X
the mottled cat	X
	-
'Twenty years ' said Goodman Garvin speaking	O
sadly under breath	Y
And his gray head slowly shaking as one who	V
speaks of death	Y
	-
The goodwife dropped her needles 'It is twenty	X
years to day	X
Since the Indians fell on Saco and stole our child	X
away '	-
	-
Then they sank into the silence for each knew	V
the other's thought	X
Of a great and common sorrow and words were	N
needed not	X
	-
'Who knocks ' cried Goodman Garvin The	A
door was open thrown	G
On two strangers man and maiden cloaked and	X
furred the fire light shone	G
	-
One with courteous gesture lifted the bear skin	G
from his head	X
'Lives here Elkanah Garvin ' 'I am he ' the	A
goodman said	X
	-
'Sit ye down and dry and warm ye for the night	X
is chill with rain '	-
And the goodwife drew the settle and stirred the	A
fire amain	G
	-
The maid unclasped her cloak hood the firelight	X
glistened fair	Z
In her large moist eyes and over soft folds of	I
dark brown hair	Z
	-
Dame Garvin looked upon her 'It is Mary's self	A2
I see '	-
'Dear heart ' she cried 'now tell me has my	B2
child come back to me '	-
	-
'My name indeed is Mary ' said the stranger sobbing	O
wild	X
'Will you be to me a mother I am Mary Garvin's child '	-
	-
'She sleeps by wooded Simcoe but on her dying	O
day	X
She bade my father take me to her kinsfolk far	C2
away	X
	-
'And when the priest besought her to do me no	G
such wrong	O
She said 'May God forgive me I have closed	X
my heart too long '	-
	-
''When I hid me from my father and shut out	X
my mother's call	D2
I sinned against those dear ones and the Father	N
of us all	D2
	-
''Christ's love rebukes no home love breaks no	G
tie of kin apart	X
Better heresy in doctrine than heresy of heart	X
	-
''Tell me not the Church must censure she who	V
wept the Cross beside	X
Never made her own flesh strangers nor the claims	B
of blood denied	X
	-
''And if she who wronged her parents with her	N
child atones to them	E2
Earthly daughter Heavenly Mother thou at least	X
wilt not condemn '	-
	-
'So upon her death bed lying my blessed mother	N
spake	O
As we come to do her bidding So receive us for her	N
sake '	-
	-
'God be praised ' said Goodwife Garvin 'He taketh	F2
and He gives	B
He woundeth but He healeth in her child our	N
daughter lives '	-
	-
'Amen ' the old man answered as he brushed a	A
tear away	X
And kneeling by his hearthstone said with reverence	B
'Let us pray '	-
	-
All its Oriental symbols and its Hebrew pararphrase	B
Warm with earnest life and feeling rose his prayer	Z
of love and praise	B
	-
But he started at beholding as he rose from off	G2
his knee	G
The stranger cross his forehead with the sign of	I
Papistrie	Z
	-
'What is this ' cried Farmer Garvin 'Is an English	H2
Christian's home	I2
A chapel or a mass house that you make the sign	G
of Rome '	-
	-
Then the young girl knelt beside him kissed his	B
trembling hand and cried	X
Oh forbear to chide my father in that faith my	B2
mother died	X
	-
'On her wooden cross at Simcoe the dews and	X
sunshine fall	D2
As they fall on Spurwink's graveyard and the	A
dear God watches all '	-
	-
The old man stroked the fair head that rested on	G
his knee	G
'Your words dear child ' he answered 'are God's	B
rebuke to me	G
	-
'Creed and rite perchance may differ yet our	Z
faith and hope be one	G
Let me be your father's father let him be to me	G
a son '	-
	-
When the horn on Sabbath morning through the	A
still and frosty air	Z
From Spurwink Pool and Black Point called to	V
sermon and to prayer	Z
	-
To the goodly house of worship where in order	Z
due and fit	X
As by public vote directed classed and ranked the	A
people sit	X
	-
Mistress first and goodwife after clerkly squire	Z
before the clown	G
'From the brave coat lace embroidered to the gray	Z
frock shading down '	-
	-
From the pulpit read the preacher 'Goodman	G
Garvin and his wife	J2
Fain would thank the Lord whose kindness has	B
followed them through life	J2
	-
'For the great and crowning mercy that their	Z
daughter from the wild	X
Where she rests they hope in God's peace has	B
sent to them her child	X
	-
'And the prayers of all God's people they ask	O
that they may prove	K2
Not unworthy through their weakness of such	L2
special proof of love '	-
	-
As the preacher prayed uprising the aged couple	M2
stood	X
And the fair Canadian also in her modest maiden	G
hood	X
	-
Thought the elders grave and doubting 'She is	B
Papist born and bred '	-
Thought the young men ''T is an angel in Mary	G
Garvin's stead '	-