Whose swollen streamlet murmurs down the glade,

Where groves of hemlock and of cedars green

Oppose to northern storms a barricade,

Stands the first mansion of his rude demesne,

A slender wigwam by red Waban made;

Their common shelter from the wintry blast;

And place of rest when daily toils are past.

VII.

Yet from the storm he seldom shrinks away,

With his own hands he labors now to rear