Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Americas: Vol. XXX. 1876–79. | | | | British America: St. Lawrence (Cadaraqui), the River | | St. Lawrence River | | Clara Moreton Moore |
| | | DOWN, down we glide these “Thousand Isles” between, | |
| Lovely as fairy-land to dreaming child, | |
| Sweeping past shores now fringed with verdure green, | |
| Now clasped by rocks and tangled forests wild. | |
| Anon, like arrow from an aim that ’s true, | 5 |
| We dart adown the rapids’ fearful whirl, | |
| The rough “Cascades,” the less exciting “Sue,” | |
| Where round the rocks the foaming waters curl. | |
| And so the day glides on. At eve we near | |
| The wild “La Chine,” peril on every side; | 10 |
| Our hearts stand still, our cheeks grow pale with fear; | |
| One plunge: the brave boat safely through doth ride | |
| On where the purple hills so grandly loom, | |
| All heedless now of twilight’s gathering gloom! | | | | |
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