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And the tenderest affection they brought Took root in thy stoniest soil. How simple, how few the delights They found in this tenantless coast ; Yet the land of Arabian Nights Not deeper contentment could boast. They faced with a Puritan psalm The roughest...

Carols of the Coast: A Collection of Songs, Ballads and Legends, Original ... - Page 75
by Moses Hardy Nickerson - 1892 - 288 pages
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Markland Or Nova Scotia: Its History, Natural Resources and Native Beauties

Robert Randall McLeod - 1903 - 780 pages

...With Britain supreme in their thoughts, They heeded no danger nor toil; And the tenderest affections they brought Took root in thy stoniest soil. How simple,...a calm Through the winds and the waters at strife. Though Winter may scowl on thee rude And Summer be fickle at times, Thy children with yigor endued,...

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