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| SWEET maiden of Passamaquoddy, | |
| Shall we seek for communion of souls | |
| Where the deep Mississippi meanders, | |
| Or the distant Saskatchewan rolls? | |
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| Ah no,—for in Maine I will find thee | 5 |
| A sweetly sequestrated nook | |
| Where the far winding Skoodoowabskooksis | |
| Conjoiins with the Skoodoowabskook. | |
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| There wander two beautiful rivers, | |
| With many a winding and crook; | 10 |
| The one is the Skoodoowabskooksis, | |
| The other—the Skoodoowabskook. | |
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| Ah, sweetest of haunts! though unmentioned | |
| In geography, atlas, or book | |
| How fair is the Skoodoowabskooksis, | 15 |
| When joining the Skoodoowabskook! | |
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| Our cot shall be close by the waters | |
| Within that sequestrated nook— | |
| Reflected in Skoodoowabskooksis | |
| And mirrored in Skoodoowabskook. | 20 |
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| You shall sleep to the music of leaflets, | |
| By zephyrs in wantonness shook, | |
| And dream of the Skoodoowabskooksis, | |
| And, perhaps, of the Skoodoowabskook. | |
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| When awaked by the hens and the roosters, | 25 |
| Each morn, you shall joyously look | |
| On the junction of Skoodoowabskooksis | |
| With the soft gliding Skoodoowabskook. | |
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| Your food shall be fish from the waters, | |
| Drawn forth on the point of a hook, | 30 |
| From murmuring Skoodoowabskookis, | |
| Or wandering Skoodoowabskook! | |
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| You shall quaff the most sparkling of water, | |
| Drawn forth from a silvery brook | |
| Which flows to the Skoodoowabskooksis, | 35 |
| And then to the Skoodoowabskook! | |
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| And you shall preside at the banquet, | |
| And I will wait on thee as cook; | |
| And we ’ll talk of the Skoodoowabskooksis, | |
| And sing of the Skoodoowabskook! | 40 |
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| Let others sing loudly of Saco, | |
| Of Quoddy, and Tattamagouche, | |
| Of Kennebeccasis, and Quaco, | |
| Of Merigonishe, and Buctouche, | |
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| Of Nashwaak, and Magaguadavique, | 45 |
| Or Memmerimammericook,— | |
| There ’s none like the Skoodoowabskooksis, | |
| Excepting the Skoodoowabskook! | |
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