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A shallow stream from fountains	A
Deep in the Sandwich mountains	A
Ran lake ward Bearcamp River	B
And between its flood torn shores	C
Sped by sail or urged by oars	C
No keel had vexed it ever	B
	-
Alone the dead trees yielding	D
To the dull axe Time is wielding	D
The shy mink and the otter	B
And golden leaves and red	E
By countless autumns shed	E
Had floated down its water	B
	-
From the gray rocks of Cape Ann	F
Came a skilled seafaring man	F
With his dory to the right place	G
Over hill and plain he brought her	B
Where the boatless Beareamp water	B
Comes winding down from White Face	G
	-
Quoth the skipper Ere she floats forth	H
I m sure my pretty boat s worth	I
At least a name as pretty	J
On her painted side he wrote it	K
And the flag that o er her floated	L
Bore aloft the name of Jettie	L
	-
On a radiant morn of summer	B
Elder guest and latest comer	B
Saw her wed the Bearcamp water	B
Heard the name the skipper gave her	B
And the answer to the favor	B
From the Bay State s graceful daughter	B
	-
Then a singer richly gifted	L
Her charmed voice uplifted	L
And the wood thrush and song sparrow	M
Listened dumb with envious pain	N
To the clear and sweet refrain	N
Whose notes they could not borrow	M
	-
Then the skipper plied his oar	O
And from off the shelving shore	O
Glided out the strange explorer	B
Floating on she knew not whither	B
The tawny sands beneath her	B
The great hills watching o er her	B
	-
On where the stream flows quiet	L
As the meadows margins by it	L
Or widens out to borrow a	P
New life from that wild water	B
The mountain giant s daughter	B
The pine besung Chocorua	B
	-
Or mid the tangling cumber	B
And pack of mountain lumber	B
That spring floods downward force	Q
Over sunken snag and bar	B
Where the grating shallows are	B
The good boat held her course	Q
	-
Under the pine dark highlands	R
Around the vine hung islands	R
She ploughed her crooked furrow	B
And her rippling and her lurches	S
Scared the river eels and perches	S
And the musk rat in his burrow	B
	-
Every sober clam below her	B
Every sage and grave pearl grower	B
Shut his rusty valves the tighter	B
Crow called to crow complaining	D
And old tortoises sat craning	D
Their leathern necks to sight her	B
	-
So to where the still lake glasses	T
The misty mountain masses	T
Rising dim and distant northward	L
And with faint drawn shadow pictures	U
Low shores and dead pine spectres	U
Blends the skyward and the earthward	L
	-
On she glided overladen	N
With merry man and maiden	N
Sending back their song and laughter	B
While perchance a phantom crew	B
In a ghostly birch canoe	B
Paddled dumb and swiftly after	B
	-
And the bear on Ossipee	V
Climbed the topmost crag to see	U
The strange thing drifting under	B
And through the haze of August	L
Passaconaway and Paugus	U
Looked down in sleepy wonder	B
	-
All the pines that o er her hung	D
In mimic sea tones sung	D
The song familiar to her	B
And the maples leaned to screen her	B
And the meadow grass seemed greener	B
And the breeze more soft to woo her	B
	-
The lone stream mystery haunted	L
To her the freedom granted	L
To scan its every feature	B
Till new and old were blended	L
And round them both extended	L
The loving arms of Nature	B
	-
Of these hills the little vessel	W
Henceforth is part and parcel	W
And on Bearcamp shall her log	D
Be kept as if by George s	U
Or Grand Menan the surges	U
Tossed her skipper through the fog	D
	-
And I who half in sadness	U
Recall the morning gladness	U
Of life at evening time	X
By chance onlooking idly	U
Apart from all so widely	U
Have set her voyage to rhyme	X
	-
Dies now the gay persistence	U
Of song and laugh in distance	U
Alone with me remaining	D
The stream the quiet meadow	L
The hills in shine and shadow	L
The sombre pines complaining	D
	-
And musing here I dream	Y
Of voyagers on a stream	Y
From whence is no returning	D
Under sealed orders going	D
Looking forward little knowing	D
Looking back with idle yearning	D
	-
And I pray that every venture	B
The port of peace may enter	B
That safe from snag and fall	Z
And siren haunted islet	L
And rock the Unseen Pilot	L
May guide us one and all	Z

John Greenleaf Whittier

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