Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. / with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various / rivers of Maine and New Brunswick

by John S. Springer

Seem the fading leaves;

And a music wild and solemn

From the Pine-tree's height,

Rolls its vast and sea-like volume

On the wind of night.

Make we here our camp of winter,

And through sleet and snow

Pitch knot and beechen splinter

On our hearth shall glow;

Here, with mirth to lighten duty,