• Sweet maiden of Passamaquoddy,
      Shall we seek for communion of souls
    Where the deep Mississippi meanders,
      Or the distant Saskatchewan rolls?

    Ah no,—for in Maine I will find thee
      A sweetly sequestrated nook
    Where the far winding Skoodoowabskooksis
      Conjoiins with the Skoodoowabskook.

    There wander two beautiful rivers,...

  •         More proudly on thy winding course,

                Dark Alleghany! flow;

            The noblest burden thou couldst bear

                Is on thy waters now.

     

            But calm be every turbid wave,

                And hushed be wind and storm:

            There lies a Nation's destiny
    ...