Maine Pioneer Settlements ..., Volume 5W.B. Clarke Company, 1909 |
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Abenake Acadia anchor Andros Argal Bashaba Bay of Fundy beautiful beaver began Biard Biart Biencourt Boston Canada canoas canoes Cape Sable Captain Castin Chambly Champlain says coast colony colors Croix D'Aulnay D'Aulnay's dusky English Father fire fish Fort William Henry France French furs Governor Grandfontaine gray Gregoires Gulf of Maine harbor Indian Ingram Iroquois island Isle Jesuits Kadesquit King land later leagues lish Madockawando Maine Menneval Mont Desert mouth night Norumbega old château Oléron once Pemaquid Penobscot Penobscot River Pentagoët Perrot pirate Plymouth Pont-Gravé Port Royal possession Poutrincourt priest Quebec river rocks romance Sagamo sailed Sainte Famille Saussaye savages schooner Schooner Head settlement settler shadows shallop ship shore Sieur Sieur de Monts smoke stone story stream Tarratines tide tion Tour trade tribes vessel voyage waters wigwam wild wilderness winds winter woodland woods
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Page 218 - In moons and tides and weather wise, He read the clouds as prophecies, And foul or fair could well divine, By many an occult hint and sign, Holding the cunning-warded keys...
Page 374 - THE harp at Nature's advent strung Has never ceased to play ; The song the stars of morning sung Has never died away. And prayer is made, and praise is given, By all things near and far ; The ocean looketh up to heaven, And mirrors every star. Its waves are kneeling on the strand, As kneels the human knee...
Page 208 - LIKE two cathedral towers these stately pines Uplift their fretted summits tipped with cones ; The arch beneath them is not built with stones, Not Art but Nature traced these lovely lines, And carved this graceful arabesque of vines ; No organ but the wind here sighs and moans, No sepulchre conceals a martyr's bones, No marble bishop on his tomb reclines. Enter...
Page 121 - ... but also on account of the intercourse which we proposed with the savages of these coasts and of the interior, as we should be in the midst of them. We hoped to pacify them in the course of time, and put an end to the wars which they carry on with one another, so as to derive service from them in future, and convert them to the Christian faith. This place was named by Sieur de Monts the Island of St. Croix.
Page 367 - Black were her eyes as the berry thst grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses ! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows. When in the harvest heat she bore to the reapers at noontide Flagons of home-brewed ale, ah...
Page 367 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 301 - And so he plays his part: the sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion,— Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 162 - Pennobscot, which is East and West, North and South, more then ten leagues ; but such were my occasions, I was constrained to be satisfied of them I found in the Bay, that the...
Page 121 - Vessels could pass up the river only at the mercy of the cannon on this island, and we deemed the location the most advantageous, not only on account of its situation and good soil, but also on account of the intercourse which we proposed with the savages of these coasts and of the interior, as we should be in the midst of them. We hoped to pacify them in the course of time and put an end to the wars which they carry on with one another, so as to derive service from them in future, and convert them...