Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
IV. Inland Waters: HighlandsThe Snows
Charles Sangster (18221893)O
Buoyantly goes
The lumberers’ bark canoe:
Lightly they sweep,
Wilder each leap,
Rending the white-caps through.
Away! Away!
With the speed of a startled deer,
While the steersman true
And his laughing crew
Sing of their wild career:
Far o’er the tide
In ships that are stanch and strong:
Safely as they
Speed we away,
Waking the woods with song.”
Away! Away!
With the speed of a startled deer,
While the laughing crew
Of the swift canoe
Sing of the raftsmen’s cheer:
O’er rapid and lake,
We ’re sport for the sun and rain;
Free as the child
Of the Arab wild,
Hardened to toil and pain.
Away! Away!
With the speed of a startled deer,
While our buoyant flight
And the rapid’s might
Heighten our swift career.”
Buoyantly goes
The lumberers’ bark canoe:
Lightly they sweep,
Wilder each leap,
Tearing the white-caps through.
Away! Away!
With the speed of a startled deer,
There ’s a fearless crew
In each light canoe
To sing of the raftsmen’s cheer.