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ROBERT RAWLIN Frosts were falling	A
When the ranger's horn was calling	A
Through the woods to Canada	B
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Gone the winter's sleet and snowing	A
Gone the spring time's bud and blowing	A
Gone the summer's harvest mowing	A
And again the fields are gray	C
Yet away he's away	C
Faint and fainter hope is growing	A
In the hearts that mourn his stay	C
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Where the lion crouching high on	D
Abraham's rock with teeth of iron	E
Glares o'er wood and wave away	C
Faintly thence as pines far sighing	A
Or as thunder spent and dying	A
Come the challenge and replying	A
Come the sounds of flight and fray	C
Well a day Hope and pray	C
Some are living some are lying	A
In their red graves far away	C
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Straggling rangers worn with dangers	F
Homeward faring weary strangers	F
Pass the farm gate on their way	C
Tidings of the dead and living	A
Forest march and ambush giving	A
Till the maidens leave their weaving	A
And the lads forget their play	C
'Still away still away '	-
Sighs a sad one sick with grieving	A
'Why does Robert still delay '	-
	-
Nowhere fairer sweeter rarer	G
Does the golden locked fruit bearer	G
Through his painted woodlands stray	C
Than where hillside oaks and beeches	F
Overlook the long blue reaches	F
Silver coves and pebbled beaches	F
And green isles of Casco Bay	C
Nowhere day for delay	C
With a tenderer look beseeches	F
'Let me with my charmed earth stay '	-
	-
On the grain lands of the mainlands	F
Stands the serried corn like train bands	F
Plume and pennon rustling gay	C
Out at sea the islands wooded	H
Silver birches golden hooded	H
Set with maples crimson blooded	H
White sea foam and sand hills gray	C
Stretch away far away	C
Dim and dreamy over brooded	H
By the hazy autumn day	C
	-
Gayly chattering to the clattering	A
Of the brown nuts downward pattering	A
Leap the squirrels red and gray	C
On the grass land on the fallow	I
Drop the apples red and yellow	I
Drop the russet pears and mellow	I
Drop the red leaves all the day	C
And away swift away	C
Sun and cloud o'er hill and hollow	I
Chasing weave their web of play	C
	-
'Martha Mason Martha Mason	J
Prithee tell us of the reason	J
Why you mope at home to day	C
Surely smiling is not sinning	A
Leave your quilling leave your spinning	A
What is all your store of linen	J
If your heart is never gay	C
Come away come away	C
Never yet did sad beginning	A
Make the task of life a play '	-
	-
Overbending till she's blending	A
With the flaxen skein she's tending	A
Pale brown tresses smoothed away	C
From her face of patient sorrow	I
Sits she seeking but to borrow	I
From the trembling hope of morrow	I
Solace for the weary day	C
'Go your way laugh and play	C
Unto Him who heeds the sparrow	I
And the lily let me pray '	-
	-
'With our rally rings the valley	K
Join us ' cried the blue eyed Nelly	K
'Join us ' cried the laughing May	C
'To the beach we all are going	A
And to save the task of rowing	A
West by north the wind is blowing	A
Blowing briskly down the bay	C
Come away come away	C
Time and tide are swiftly flowing	A
Let us take them while we may	C
	-
'Never tell us that you'll fail us	F
Where the purple beach plum mellows	F
On the bluffs so wild and gray	C
Hasten for the oars are falling	A
Hark our merry mates are calling	A
Time it is that we were all in	L
Singing tideward down the bay '	-
'Nay nay let me stay	C
Sore and sad for Robert Rawlin	L
Is my heart ' she said 'to day '	-
	-
'Vain your calling for Rob Rawlin	L
Some red squaw his moose meat's broiling	A
Or some French lass singing gay	C
Just forget as he's forgetting	A
What avails a life of fretting	A
If some stars must needs be setting	A
Others rise as good as they '	-
'Cease I pray go your way '	-
Martha cries her eyelids wetting	A
'Foul and false the words you say '	-
	-
'Martha Mason hear to reason	L
Prithee put a kinder face on '	-
'Cease to vex me ' did she say	C
'Better at his side be lying	A
With the mournful pine trees sighing	A
And the wild birds o'er us crying	A
Than to doubt like mine a prey	C
While away far away	C
Turns my heart forever trying	A
Some new hope for each new day	C
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'When the shadows veil the meadows	F
And the sunset's golden ladders	F
Sink from twilight's walls of gray	C
From the window of my dreaming	A
I can see his sickle gleaming	A
Cheery voiced can hear him teaming	A
Down the locust shaded way	C
But away swift away	C
Fades the fond delusive seeming	A
And I kneel again to pray	C
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'When the growing dawn is showing	A
And the barn yard cock is crowing	A
And the horned moon pales away	C
From a dream of him awaking	A
Every sound my heart is making	A
Seems a footstep of his taking	A
Then I hush the thought and say	C
'Nay nay he's away '	-
Ah my heart my heart is breaking	A
For the dear one far away '	-
	-
Look up Martha worn and swarthy	K
Glows a face of manhood worthy	K
'Robert ' 'Martha ' all they say	C
O'er went wheel and reel together	G
Little cared the owner whither	G
Heart of lead is heart of feather	G
Noon of night is noon of day	C
Come away come away	C
When such lovers meet each other	G
Why should prying idlers stay	C
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Quench the timber's fallen embers	F
Quench the recd leaves in December's	F
Hoary rime and chilly spray	C
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But the hearth shall kindle clearer	G
Household welcomes sound sincerer	G
Heart to loving heart draw nearer	G
When the bridal bells shall say	C
'Hope and pray trust alway	C
Life is sweeter love is dearer	G
For the trial and delay '	-

John Greenleaf Whittier

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