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Stream of my fathers sweetly still	A
The sunset rays thy valley fill	A
Poured slantwise down the long defile	A
Wave wood and spire beneath them smile	A
I see the winding Powow fold	B
The green hill in its belt of gold	B
And following down its wavy line	C
Its sparkling waters blend with thine	C
There 's not a tree upon thy side	D
Nor rock which thy returning tide	D
As yet hath left abrupt and stark	E
Above thy evening water mark	E
No calm cove with its rocky hem	F
No isle whose emerald swells begin	G
Thy broad smooth current not a sail	A
Bowed to the freshening ocean gale	A
No small boat with its busy oars	H
Nor gray wall sloping to thy shores	H
Nor farm house with its maple shade	I
Or rigid poplar colonnade	I
But lies distinct and full in sight	J
Beneath this gush of sunset light	J
Centuries ago that harbor bar	K
Stretching its length of foam afar	K
And Salisbury's beach of shining sand	L
And yonder island's wave smoothed strand	L
Saw the adventurer's tiny sail	A
Flit stooping from the eastern gale	A
And o'er these woods and waters broke	M
The cheer from Britain's hearts of oak	M
As brightly on the voyager's eye	N
Weary of forest sea and sky	N
Breaking the dull continuous wood	O
The Merrimac rolled down his flood	P
Mingling that clear pellucid brook	Q
Which channels vast Agioochook	Q
When spring time's sun and shower unlock	Q
The frozen fountains of the rock	Q
And more abundant waters given	R
From that pure lake 'The Smile of Heaven '	S
Tributes from vale and mountain side	D
With ocean's dark eternal tide	D
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On yonder rocky cape which braves	T
The stormy challenge of the waves	T
Midst tangled vine and dwarfish wood	O
The hardy Anglo Saxon stood	O
Planting upon the topmost crag	Q
The staff of England's battle flag	Q
And while from out its heavy fold	B
Saint George's crimson cross unrolled	B
Midst roll of drum and trumpet blare	U
And weapons brandishing in air	U
He gave to that lone promontory	U
The sweetest name in all his story	U
Of her the flower of Islam's daughters	V
Whose harems look on Stamboul's waters	V
Who when the chance of war had bound	B
The Moslem chain his limbs around	B
Wreathed o'er with silk that iron chain	W
Soothed with her smiles his hours of pain	W
And fondly to her youthful slave	X
A dearer gift than freedom gave	X
	-
But look the yellow light no more	U
Streams down on wave and verdant shore	U
And clearly on the calm air swells	Y
The twilight voice of distant bells	Y
From Ocean's bosom white and thin	G
The mists come slowly rolling in	G
Hills woods the river's rocky rim	Z
Amidst the sea like vapor swim	Z
While yonder lonely coast light set	B
Within its wave washed minaret	B
Half quenched a beamless star and pale	A
Shines dimly through its cloudy veil	A
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Home of my fathers I have stood	B
Where Hudson rolled his lordly flood	B
Seen sunrise rest and sunset fade	B
Along his frowning Palisade	B
Looked down the Appalachian peak	Q
On Juniata's silver streak	Q
Have seen along his valley gleam	A2
The Mohawk's softly winding stream	A2
The level light of sunset shine	C
Through broad Potomac's hem of pine	C
And autumn's rainbow tinted banner	U
Hang lightly o'er the Susquehanna	B2
Yet wheresoe'er his step might be	U
Thy wandering child looked back to thee	U
Heard in his dreams thy river's sound	B
Of murmuring on its pebbly bound	B
The unforgotten swell and roar	U
Of waves on thy familiar shore	U
And saw amidst the curtained gloom	C2
And quiet of his lonely room	C2
Thy sunset scenes before him pass	D2
As in Agrippa's magic glass	D2
The loved and lost arose to view	E2
Remembered groves in greenness grew	E2
Bathed still in childhood's morning dew	E2
Along whose bowers of beauty swept	B
Whatever Memory's mourners wept	B
Sweet faces which the charnel kept	B
Young gentle eyes which long had slept	B
And while the gazer leaned to trace	F2
More near some dear familiar face	F2
He wept to find the vision flown	G2
A phantom and a dream alone	G2

John Greenleaf Whittier

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