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FROM the green Amesbury hill which bears the name	A
Of that half mythic ancestor of mine	B
Who trod its slopes two hundred years ago	C
Down the long valley of the Merrimac	D
Midway between me and the river's mouth	E
I see thy home set like an eagle's nest	F
Among Deer Island's immemorial pines	G
Crowning the crag on which the sunset breaks	H
Its last red arrow Many a tale and song	I
Which thou bast told or sung I call to mind	J
Softening with silvery mist the woods and hills	K
The out thrust headlands and inreaching bays	L
Of our northeastern coast line trending where	M
The Gulf midsummer feels the chill blockade	N
Of icebergs stranded at its northern gate	O
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To thee the echoes of the Island Sound	P
Answer not vainly nor in vain the moan	Q
Of the South Breaker prophesying storm	R
And thou hast listened like myself to men	S
Sea periled oft where Anticosti lies	T
Like a fell spider in its web of fog	U
Or where the Grand Bank shallows with the wrecks	V
Of sunken fishers and to whom strange isles	W
And frost rimmed bays and trading stations seem	X
Familiar as Great Neck and Kettle Cove	Y
Nubble and Boon the common names of home	Z
So let me offer thee this lay of mine	B
Simple and homely lacking much thy play	A2
Of color and of fancy If its theme	X
And treatment seem to thee befitting youth	B2
Rather than age let this be my excuse	C2
It has beguiled some heavy hours and called	D2
Some pleasant memories up and better still	E2
Occasion lent me for a kindly word	F2
To one who is my neighbor and my friend	G2
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The skipper sailed out of the harbor mouth	E
Leaving the apple bloom of the South	E
For the ice of the Eastern seas	H2
In his fishing schooner Breeze	H2
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Handsome and brave and young was he	I2
And the maids of Newbury sighed to see	I2
His lessening white sail fall	J2
Under the sea's blue wall	J2
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Through the Northern Gulf and the misty screen	K2
Of the isles of Mingan and Madeleine	S
St Paul's and Blanc Sablon	S
The little Breeze sailed on	S
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Backward and forward along the shore	L2
Of lorn and desolate Labrador	L2
And found at last her way	A2
To the Seven Islands Bay	A2
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The little hamlet nestling below	C
Great hills white with lingering snow	C
With its tin roofed chapel stood	M2
Half hid in the dwarf spruce wood	M2
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Green turfed flower sown the last outpost	N2
Of summer upon the dreary coast	N2
With its gardens small and spare	M
Sad in the frosty air	M
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Hard by where the skipper's schooner lay	A2
A fisherman's cottage looked away	A2
Over isle and bay and behind	J
On mountains dim defined	J
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And there twin sisters fair and young	O2
Laughed with their stranger guest and sung	O2
In their native tongue the lays	L
Of the old Provencal days	L
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Alike were they save the faint outline	S
Of a scar on Suzette's forehead fine	S
And both it so befell	P2
Loved the heretic stranger well	P2
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Both were pleasant to look upon	S
But the heart of the skipper clave to one	S
Though less by his eye than heart	Q2
He knew the twain apart	Q2
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Despite of alien race and creed	R2
Well did his wooing of Marguerite speed	R2
And the mother's wrath was vain	S
As the sister's jealous pain	S
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The shrill tongued mistress her house forbade	N
And solemn warning was sternly said	S2
By the black robed priest whose word	F2
As law the hamlet heard	F2
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But half by voice and half by signs	G
The skipper said 'A warm sun shines	G
On the green banked Merrimac	D
Wait watch till I come back	D
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'And when you see from my mast head	S2
The signal fly of a kerchief red	S2
My boat on the shore shall wait	O
Come when the night is late '	-
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Ah weighed with childhood's haunts and friends	T2
And all that the home sky overbends	T2
Did ever young love fail	U2
To turn the trembling scale	U2
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Under the night on the wet sea sands	T2
Slowly unclasped their plighted hands	T2
One to the cottage hearth	V2
And one to his sailor's berth	W2
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What was it the parting lovers heard	F2
Nor leaf nor ripple nor wing of bird	F2
But a listener's stealthy tread	S2
On the rock moss crisp and dead	S2
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He weighed his anchor and fished once more	L2
By the black coast line of Labrador	L2
And by love and the north wind driven	S
Sailed back to the Islands Seven	S
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In the sunset's glow the sisters twain	S
Saw the Breeze come sailing in again	S
Said Suzette 'Mother dear	X2
The heretic's sail is here '	-
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'Go Marguerite to your room and hide	Y2
Your door shall be bolted ' the mother cried	Y2
While Suzette ill at ease	T2
Watched the red sign of the Breeze	T2
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At midnight down to the waiting skiff	Z2
She stole in the shadow of the cliff	Z2
And out of the Bay's mouth ran	S
The schooner with maid and man	S
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And all night long on a restless bed	S2
Her prayers to the Virgin Marguerite said	S2
And thought of her lover's pain	S
Waiting for her in vain	S
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Did he pace the sands Did he pause to hear	A3
The sound of her light step drawing near	X2
And as the slow hours passed	B3
Would he doubt her faith at last	B3
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But when she saw through the misty pane	S
The morning break on a sea of rain	S
Could even her love avail	U2
To follow his vanished sail	U2
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Meantime the Breeze with favoring wind	J
Left the rugged Moisic hills behind	J
And heard from an unseen shore	L2
The falls of Manitou roar	L2
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On the morrow's morn in the thick gray weather	C3
They sat on the reeling deck together	C3
Lover and counterfeit	D3
Of hapless Marguerite	E3
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With a lover's hand from her forehead fair	M
He smoothed away her jet black hair	M
What was it his fond eyes met	F3
The scar of the false Suzette	F3
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Fiercely he shouted 'Bear away	A2
East by north for Seven Isles Bay '	-
The maiden wept and prayed	N
But the ship her helm obeyed	N
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Once more the Bay of the Isles they found	P
They heard the bell of the chapel sound	P
And the chant of the dying sung	O2
In the harsh wild Indian tongue	O2
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A feeling of mystery change and awe	G3
Was in all they heard and all they saw	T2
Spell bound the hamlet lay	A2
In the hush of its lonely bay	A2
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And when they came to the cottage door	L2
The mother rose up from her weeping sore	L2
And with angry gestures met	F3
The scared look of Suzette	F3
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'Here is your daughter ' the skipper said	S2
'Give me the one I love instead '	-
But the woman sternly spake	H3
'Go see if the dead will wake '	-
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He looked Her sweet face still and white	I3
And strange in the noonday taper light	I3
She lay on her little bed	S2
With the cross at her feet and head	S2
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In a passion of grief the strong man bent	J3
Down to her face and kissing it went	J3
Back to the waiting Breeze	T2
Back to the mournful seas	T2
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Never again to the Merrimac	D
And Newbury's homes that bark came back	D
Whether her fate she met	F3
On the shores of Carraquette	F3
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Miscou or Tracadie who can say	A2
But even yet at Seven Isles Bay	A2
Is told the ghostly tale	U2
Of a weird unspoken sail	U2
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In the pale sad light of the Northern day	A2
Seen by the blanketed Montagnais	A2
Or squaw in her small kyack	D
Crossing the spectre's track	D
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On the deck a maiden wrings her hands	A2
Her likeness kneels on the gray coast sands	A2
One in her wild despair	M
And one in the trance of prayer	M
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She flits before no earthly blast	F3
The red sign fluttering from her mast	F3
Over the solemn seas	A2
The ghost of the schooner Breeze	A2