Excerpt from Place-Names of the Province of Nova Scotia

The Indian Names of Canada.

The memory of the Red Man,
How can it pass away,
While their names of music linger
On each mount and stream and bay,
While Musquodoboit's waters
Roll sparkling to the main,
While falls the laughing sunbeam
On Chegoggin's fields of grain,

While floats our country's banner
O'er Chebucto's glorious wave,
And frowning cliffs of Scatarie
The trampling surges brave,
While breezy Aspotogan
Lifts high its summit blue,
And sparkles on its winding way
The gentle Sissibou,

While Eskasoni's fountains
Pour down their crystal tide,
While Ingonish's mountains
Lift high their forms of pride,
Or while on Mabou's river
The boatman plies his oar,
Or the billows burst in thunder
On Chickaben's rock-girt shore?

The memory of the Red Man,
It lingers like a spell
On many a storm-swept headland,
On many a leafy dell,
Where Tusket's thousand islets
Like emeralds stud the deep,
Where Blomidon, a sentry grim.
His endless watch doth keep.

It dwells round Catalone's blue lake,
Mid leafy forests hid,
Round fair Descouse and the rushing tides
Of the turbid Pisiquid,
And it lends, Chebogue, a touching grace
To thy softly flowing river,
As we sadly think of the gentle race
That has passed away forever.

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