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

We shall lack alone

Woman, with her smile of beauty,

And her gentle tone.

But her hearth is brighter burning

For our work to-day,

And her welcome at returning

Shall our loss repay.

Strike, then, comrades! Trade is waiting

On our rugged toil,

Far ships waiting for the freighting