Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-25
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Maine Waters.

Maine Waters.
Geo. B. Wallis in Bassetts Scrap Book
O, the lovely rivers and lakes Of Maine.
l am charmed with their names, az my
song will explain.
Aboriginal muses. inspire my strain,
While l sing of the bright rivers and
lakes of Maine.
From Cupsuptic to Cheputmaticook,
From Sagadahoc to Pohennegamook-
'gamook, gamook.
From Sagadahoc to Pohonnegamook.
For the light serenading the 6ias
Bonnie Doom" and Sweet Avon may
dd. very well:
But the rivers of Maine in their wild
solitudes
Bring a thunderous sound from the
depths OF the woods -
The Aroostook and Chimmenticook,
The Ehimpassaoc and Chimquassabam-
tQok-
hancock, 'bamtook.
Chirfpassaoc and Chimquassabantook.
Behold, how they sparkle and fash in
The Matawamkeag and the Mussengun. :.
The kingly Penobscot and wild Woolas-
cook.
Kennebec. Kennebago and Sebasticook;
The pretty Presumscot and gay TQianbic;
The Eeuilsagook and little Schoodic-$
Schoodic, Sehoodic
The little Schoodic,
The Equilsagook and little schoodic-
Yes, yes, I prefer the bright rivers of
Maine
To the Rhine or the Rhone, or the Saone
or the Seine;
These may do for the cockney. but give
ne some nook,
on the Ammonoosuc or the Yytapadlook,
On the Umasakis or the Ripogenis,
The Ripogenis or the Piscataquis,
The Ripogenis or PiscataquiS.
Away down South the Cherokee,
Has named his river the Tennessee
The Chattahoochee and Ocmulgee,
The Congaree and the Ohoopee;
But what are they or the Frenchy De-
trot
To the Passadumkeag or the Wassato-
'toduoit, 'toquoit,
To the Passadumkeag or the Wassato-
quot?
(To the sage of Auburn be given the
strain
The statesman whose genius and bright
The earth's highest glories to shine in
it's lakesD
What lakes out of Maine can we place
in the book
With the Matagamon and the Pangoko-
nook
'omook, 'omook.
The Pangokomook?
With the Matagamon and the Pangoko-
NOOK?
Lake Leman and Como, what care 1 for
them.
When Maine has the Moosehead and
Pangokwahen,
And sweet as the dews in the violet's
kiss,
Wallagosquegamook and Telesimis:
And when l can share on the fisher
mans bunk
On the Mooselucmaguntic or Mol
tunkmunk?
'amunkfi 'amunk.
Or Moltunkmunk,
On the interchangeable or Mol'tunka-
munk!
And Maine has the Eagle lakes and
And the little Sepic and the little Scapan.
Sfhe spreading Sehago. the Cangomgo-
moe.
The Mllikonet and Motesinioc.
U Caribou and 1.-THE fair Apmomjenega-
oquassoc and rare wetokenbacook-
'acook, ,acook.
sWetokenbacook.
Oquassoc and Wetokenbacook.
And there are the Pokeshine and Pat
quongomis;
And there are the pretty Coscomogono-
sis,
Romantic Umbagog and Pemadumook,
The Pemadumcook and the old Chesun-
cook.
sepois and Moosetuck; and take care
not to miss,
'dobsis, 'dobsis,
The UmbaZookskus and the Sysladoh-
sis
The Sysladobis,
The Umbazookskus and the Sysladobis.
Q, give me the rivers and lakes Of Maine
In her mountains or forests or fields of
grain,
In the depths of the shade or the blaze
of the sun,
The lakes of Schoodic and the Bascone-
gun,
And the dear Waubasoos and the clear
Aquesue,
The Cosbosecontic and Millenkikuk,
'kikuk, 'kikuk,
The Millenkikuk,
The Cosbosecontic and the Millenkikuk,