Acadian Legends and Lyrics - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1458801772 ISBN 13: 9781458801777

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891. Excerpt: ... THE NAMING OF THE GASPEREAU. ABOUT 1673. TVT OW the rainbow tints of autumn ' Deck the ancient hills And the dreamy river saunters Past the lazy mills, Let us seek the murmuring forest Where the pines and hemlocks grow And a thousand fringed shadows Fall upon the Gaspereau. When the old Acadian farmers, Sailing up the Bay, Landed with their goods and cattle On the fair Grand fri, Wandering through the ancient forest Claude, Rene, and Theriot, In a vale of matchless beauty Found the River Gaspereau. Found the lithe and dark-skinned Micmac, In his birch canoe, Paddling down his Magapskegechk To the Basin blue, Little dreaming of the presence Of the Indian's pale-faced foe Singing unmelodious boat-songs On the winding Gaspereau. Midst the brushwood and the rushes And the trembling ferns, Where the River, sighing, singing, Speeds with many turns Through the gateway of the mountains Toward the meadows far below, On they crept in silent wonder By the sun-kissed Gaspereau. These were days of dream and legend, Continents were new, Here the humble Norman peasants Into poets grew; From their roaming in the forest Claude, Rene, and Theriot Brought their comrades rapt descriptions Of the vale of Gaspereau. Then around the hemlock fire, In the cabin rude, With their stock of cheese and brown-bread And their ale, home-brewed, Gathered all the Norman peasants; And at last Rene said low: "Let us name the new-found river Gaspere-water, Gaspereau!" Gaspere was the gentlest comrade In their little band, None so buoyant, none so eager For the Acadian land; But ere half the voyage was over, In the wastes of summer seas, Suddenly there crept beside him Some old shadow of disease. There was mourning in the vessel, Strong men sobbed and cried, When one evening, just at sunset, T...

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• ISBN 10: 1458801772
• ISBN 13: 9781458801777
• Einband: Tapa blanda