The hills are peeping through their wintry shrouds.

II.

Dissolving snows each downward channel fill,

Each swollen brook a foaming torrent brawls,

Old Seekonk murmurs, and from every hill

Answer aloud the coming waterfalls;

Deep-voiced Pawtucket thunders louder still,—

To dark Mooshausick joyously he calls,

Who breaks his bondage, and through forests brown

Murmurs the hoarse response and rolls his tribute down.